Station crew to celebrate Gagarin anniversary

A multinational crew aboard the International Space Station will take time Thursday to share special meals and celebrate the 51st anniversary of the world’s first human spaceflight. On April 12, 1961, Russian Air Force pilot Yuri Gagarin rocketed into the history books, launching into space from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. “That was a momentous for all of humankind,” U.S. astronaut Dan Burbank said in a space-to-ground news conference Wednesday. “It basically set the foundation a very wonderful and robust space program that now we enjoy cooperatively, internationally.” More

(Source: Florida Today - Apr 12)