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Gagarin Plaque
9 of 10 from Yuri Gagarin's historic space flight (photos)
According to NASA, "Dr. George M. Low, acting administrator of NASA, presented to the USSR on January 21, 1971, a plaque in memory of Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin who made the first flight into space on April 12, 1961. Accepting the plaque at the Moscow ceremony was Soviet Gen. Kuznetsov, commander of the USSR's Star City space base, where cosmonauts have been training since 1960."
April 12, 2011 4:00 AM PDT
Photo by: NASA
| Caption by: Daniel Terdiman
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