"Racing to Space: Gagarin and Shepard" by Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum - Cold War Space Race began with Soviet Union and USA launching people months apart. #History records Yuri Gagarin as 1st human in #space April 12, 1961. https://airandspace.si.edu/explore/stories/gagarin-vs-shepard #YurisNight #space

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62 years ago today, humankind went to space for the first time. 🚀

Yuri Gagarin’s journey into space on Vostok 1 on 4/12/61 forever changed space travel, and continues to inspire peaceful journeys into space! #YurisNight #InternationalDayOfHumanSpaceflight (🧵1/5)

[📷: NASA]

When your night is priceless because you’re at Yuri’s Night at the Science Center in LA with your friend, author Tananarive Due and you meet two astronauts who happen to be women and Black. Dr. Jessica Watkins (far right) and Dr. Sian Proctor (far left and the first Black woman to pilot a spacecraft!) I wrote a comic book story for DC comics last year about the first Black woman in space, Mae Jemison, so this was a great moment.
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