Gagarin’s Start (Russian: Гагаринский старт Gagarinskij start) is a launch site at Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan used for the Soviet space program and now managed by the Russian Federal Space Agency.The launchpad for the world’s first human spaceflight made by Yuri Gagarin on Vostok 1 in 1961 the site was referred to as Site No.1 (Площадка №1 Ploshchadka No. 1) as the first one of its kind.
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launch site
Baikonur Cosmodrome
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1
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Russian Federal Space Agency, Soviet space program
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