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Fifty Years of Human Spaceflight

On April 12, 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin (left, on the way to the launch pad) made the first human spaceflight, a 108-minute orbital journey in his Vostok 1 spacecraft. Newspapers like The Huntsville Times (right) trumpeted Gagarin's accomplishme

Human spaceflight has come a long way over the last 50 years since the launch of cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on April 12, 1961 during the Vostok 1 mission. SPACE.com looks at just how far spaceflight has come and what's on the horizon.

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See incredible images of Earth taken by Dutch astronaut André Kuipers from the International Space Station.
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Veteran astronauts Franklin Chang Diaz, Kevin Chilton and Charles Precourt are the 2012 inductees into the Astronaut Hall of Fame.
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