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12th of April 1961, Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (Russian: Ю́рий Алексе́евич Гага́рин) becomes the first human being to leave Earth and reach outer space, aboard the first

Vostok

(East) spacecraft, a modified R-7 ICBM. 

enrique262:

12th of April 1961, Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (Russian: Ю́рий Алексе́евич Гага́рин) becomes the first human being to leave Earth and reach outer space, aboard the first

Vostok

(East) spacecraft, a modified R-7 ICBM.