Important Event of April – 12

Important Event of April – 12

 International Day of Human Space Flight

• The International Day of Human Space Flight, which is also Cosmonautics Day in Russia and other countries, is the annual celebration, held on April 12, of the anniversary of the first human space flight by Yuri Gagarin.
• It was proclaimed at the 65th session of the United Nations General Assembly on April 7, 2011.

Background

• On 4 October 1957 the first human-made Earth satellite Sputnik I was launched into outer space, thus opening the way for space exploration.
• On 12 April 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first human to orbit the Earth, opening a new chapter of human endeavour in outer space.

First in the space

• 12 April 1961: Yuri Gagarin became the first human to orbit the Earth.

Yuri Gagarin

Yuri Gagarin carried out Vostok 1 space flight in 1961, making one orbit around the Earth over 108 minutes in the Vostok 3KA spacecraft launched by Vostok-K launch vehicle.

• 16 June 1963: Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to orbit the Earth.

• 20 July 1969: Neil Armstrong became the first human to set foot on the surface of the Moon.

• 17 July 1975: Docking of Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft in space was the First international human mission to space.

• 1984: Rakesh Sharma, the former Indian Air Force pilot, became the first person of Indian origin to travel in space. He slew in the space aboard Soyuz t-11, which was launched on 2 April 1984. He flew as part of the Intercosmos programme.

• 1997: Kalpana Chawla, an Indian American astronaut, became the first woman of Indian origin to be in space.

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