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International Day of Human Space Flight is observed on 12 April, the anniversary of the first human spaceflight carried out by Soviet citizen Yuri Gagarin, as established by United Nations General Assembly resolution A/RES/65/271 adopted on 7 April 2011. This special day aims to celebrate internationally the beginning of the space age for humanity, highlight the contribution of space science and technology to sustainable development goals and societal well-being, and reaffirm the commitment to t

If in 1961 you had been asked to board a narrow capsule strapped to the tip of a rocket with questionable safety, entrusted entirely to automated systems, would you have accepted? At a time when it was still unknown whether the human body could survive in space, undertaking this journey—whose return was far from guaranteed—required immense courage. Yet Yuri Gagarin answered this question without hesitation with a “yes,” and aboard the Vostok 1 spacecraft, he became the first human to enter space