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International Day of Human Space Flight: When Yuri Gagarin, the first astronaut, visited India

Yuri Gagarin and his wife Valentina Goryacheva visited India in November, 1961. He completed an orbit of the earth in April that year.

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Apr 12, 2022 · 03:46 pm

#OTD in 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel to outer space and complete one orbit of the earth. Today, we take a look back at Gagarin's trip to India in November of that year (1/8) pic.twitter.com/jlvInbPeV6

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