Vostok 1 was the first spaceflight of the Vostok programme and the first human spaceflight in history. Launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome on April 12, 1961, with Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin aboard, making him the first human to cross into outer space.

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