The Russian Progress 58P cargo freighter launches and six hours later docks to the International Space Station.
The Russian Progress 58P cargo freighter launches and six hours later docks to the International Space Station.
Sixty years ago Monday, a 27-year-old Russian test pilot named Yuri Gagarin strapped into a Vostok capsule in Central Asia and rode into orbit atop a launcher derived from a Soviet nuclear missile, becoming the first human to travel into the void of space. Twenty years later, in 1981, the era of reusable spacecraft dawned with the first launch of NASA’s space shuttle.
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