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If, in 1961, you had been asked to board a narrow capsule strapped to the tip of a rocket with questionable safety and 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—without any guarantee of return—required immense courage. Yet Yuri Gagarin answered this question with an unhesitating “yes,” and became the first human to enter Earth’s orbit aboard the Vostok 1 spacecraft.

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