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| A Vostok capsule took Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin into space for his historic flight in 1961. Gagarin became the first person to orbit Earth. Here technicians mount a Vostok capsule in the nose cone of the rocket that will send it into space. | ||||||
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| Space Exploration; Tereshkova, Valentina; Gagarin, Yuri Alekseyevich; Vostok Program | ||||||
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