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the Earthote do 27.000 kilometes per hour for at
duration of 15 minutes The ship's flight path took it up to spare and
die the Pacific Ocean, South America, aross the equator, and the
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Engels. His sate retum put to rest womes that space flight ould be fata
to humans and opened the doors to space Travel
The news quickly spread and the world was astonished. The Soviet
Union had beaten the USA in the race to get the first man into space and
Yun Gagarin had become that man. The Soviet leader Nikita
Khrushchev congratulated Gagarin on his achievement and sent him a
message from his Black Sea holiday home in which he said that the flight
opened up a new page in the history of mankind in its conquest of space.
Major Yuri Gagarin, a previously unknown army officer, instantly became
a national hero and an international icon.
Today, the landing site at Engels has become a monument park at the
centre of which is a 25-meter tall sculpture of a silver metallic rocket ship
and a three-meter tall statue of Yuri Gagarin. The space hero has not
been forgotten and on the 50th anniversary of his voyage into space
world cosmonauts honoured the hero when the Russian, American, and
Italian crew of the International Space Station sent a special video
message to wish the people of the world a 'Happy Yuri's Night'
Check these words
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