Hi, I am reporting live from Baikanur Russian Space Center. Today April 12 is the annual International Day of Human Space Flight as it was declared this year by the UN in the in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of human space flight. On that day 50 years ago Yuri Gagarin - the first man to ever fly into space-boarded Vostok 1 and made the first outer space flight around the Earth, that shocked the world. Before Gagarin Russians sent to Space two dogs named belka and strelka, what means in english squirrel and arrow. Belka and strelka were two huskies. Strelka later gave birth to six puppies, one of which was given to Caroline Kennedy, daughter of U.S. President John F. Kennedy,
You would be hard-pressed to find a comparable achievement in human history. Gagarin realized one of humanity's oldest ambitions, and his flight on the Vostok rocket marked a unique technological breakthrough.
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