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On April 12, 1961, Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, a Soviet cosmonaut, became the first human being to travel into outer space. Aboard the spacecraft Vostok 1, Gagarin orbited the Earth once before safely returning to the planet.
Here were some of the newspaper reactions in Amerika:
New York Times
Hunstville Times
Christian Science Monitor
Evening Gazette
Milwaukee Journal
Daily Worker
New York Post
Denver Post
New York World-Telegram
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