Yuri Gagarin lives in our hearts’: 60 years since the first human spaceflight

  • Date: 10-Apr-2021
  • Source: The National
  • Sector:Defense
  • Country:UAE
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Yuri Gagarin lives in our hearts’: 60 years since the first human spaceflight

An era of space exploration, innovation and the first space race kicked off when Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space.

Sixty years on, Russia continues to launch humans into orbit and is commercialising its space activities for a more sustainable space programme.

Russian diplomats in the UAE marked the 60th anniversary of Gagarin's flight, where he spent 108 minutes in space aboard the Vostok-1 spacecraft on April 12, 1961.

“Gagarin is living in our hearts like a national hero,” said Yuri Vidakas, Charge d'Affaires of Russia in the UAE, on Thursday.

“All of the country, the former Soviet Union at