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On the morning of April 12, 1961, everyone cranks up the volume of their radios so that the transmission is audible to all their neighbors. Hundreds swarm Moscow's main squares. The raucous celebration lasts into the late-night hours and all the next day.
On April 14, all of Moscow welcomes the first human in space, an instant legend: 27-year-old Yuri Gagarin. Some are holding up handwritten posters. Others are unfurling red banners on their balconies. People step out onto the rooftops to glimpse the world's first cosmonaut. All the world's newspapers wrote about this huge event.
The Soviet leadership is loud and proud, announcing that the USSR has just taken the lead in the space race, a lead it won't relinquish for another couple of years. In this video, we'll tell you about the two days in Yuri Gagarin's life that could've quickly become his last. Instead, they changed human history and made Gagarin a superstar of the 20th century.
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