198145y ago
Launch
First Space Shuttle launch
Columbia became the first reusable crewed spacecraft, piloted by John Young and Robert Crippen on the 20th anniversary of Gagarin's flight.
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On This Day in Space
12 April
Anniversaries
2
Year range
1961 – 1981
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Curated
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196165y ago
Crewed flight
Yuri Gagarin — first human in space
Aboard Vostok 1, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin completed a single orbit of Earth, becoming the first person to leave the planet.