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First Flight

By Anonymous (Posted Apr 07, 2011)

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A tribute to Yuri Gagarin and his first human spaceflight, 12 April 1961. . . .


Music by Zemlyane (“The Grass at Home”).  Cf. <www.roscosmos.ru/main.php?id=87>, <english.ruvr.ru/tag_45875342/>, <ciudad-futura.net/2011/04/05/soyuz-gagarin-2/>, <www.yuriesfera.net>.




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