It was a huge moment for the United States' fledgling space program.
, in October 1957), the first to send an animal to orbit and the first to return living creatures to Earth from an orbital mission .
And then there was Gagarin's epic mission. On April 12, 1961, the cosmonaut became the first person to reach space and also the first to orbit Earth, dealing another blow to the psyche of American policymakers, national security officials and the public at large.in a key area of technological capability. Rockets carrying animals or people to space aren't so different from missiles outfitted with nuclear warheads."His flight on Friendship 7 on Feb.
"He was considered one of the Senate's leading experts on technical and scientific matters, and won wide respect for his work to prevent the spread of weapons of mass destruction," NASA officials wrote in the profile."He took pride in using his position on the Governmental Affairs Committee to root out waste in government and to clean up the nation's nuclear materials production plants.
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