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On April 12, 2026, it was the 65th anniversary of the first space flight of the Earth's first cosmonaut, Yuri Alekseevich Gagarin, whose name is known to all of humanity.

The first manned flight into outer space in the world. The "Vostok 8K72K" launch vehicle with the "Vostok-3A" spacecraft, serial number 3, was put into orbit with the following parameters: orbit inclination - 64.95 degrees; orbital period - 89.34 minutes; minimum distance from the Earth's surface (at perigee) - 181 km; maximum distance from the Earth's surface (at apogee) - 327 km.

The flight lasted 1 hour and 48 minutes. After making one orbit around the Earth, the spacecraft's descent module landed in the USSR in the Saratov region. 108 minutes - one orbit around the Earth - heralded the beginning of manned space flights.

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