Saturday is the 64th anniversary of the first human journey in space. On April 12, 1961 Yuri Gagarin orbited Earth in 1961 aboard the Vostok 1 space capsule. Watch this animation of how others have followed in Gagarin’s zero gravity footsteps.
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00:00Around the middle of the last century, humans began to explore space.
00:05On April 12, 1961, the Soviet Union successfully sent the first-ever human into space.
00:12The cosmonaut, named Yuri Gagarin, made the trip, which lasted just 108 minutes.
00:18The space race was in full flow, and less than a month later,
00:22the U.S. responded by sending Alan Shepard Jr. on a 15-minute trip into space.
00:26On October 15, 2003, China became the third country to send a human into space.
00:34Yang Liwei spent 21 hours up there on the Shenzhou 5 spacecraft.
00:39China has continued its space program and has its own independent space station up in orbit.
00:45The U.S. has plans to send humans back to the moon with the Artemis project,
00:49while private companies such as SpaceX are exploring sending people to Mars.
00:54Meanwhile, Russia is drawing up plans to build its own space station,
00:59and the country also cooperates with both China and the U.S. in the exploration of space.