This week in 1961 we saw Major Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin orbit the Earth for the very first time “The flight made by you opens up a new page in the history of mankind in its conquest of space”, Khruschev is quoted to have said.

Feel you’ve got to grips with the Arms and Space race during the Cold War?

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