Last Updated on 3 January 2024
April events from the history of space flight
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| 1 | 1960 – TIROS 1 launched, the first weather observation satellite |
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| 4 | 1983 – Second U.S. space shuttle, Challenger, launched |
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| 11 | 1970 – Apollo 13 launched |
| 12 | 1961 – Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human in space 1981 – First U.S. space shuttle, Columbia, launched |
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| 19 | 1971 – Soviet space station Salyut 1 launched |
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| 24 | 1967 – Cosmonaut Vladimir M. Komarov killed in a crash when the parachute on his Soyuz 1 spacecraft failed to deploy; first person to die during a space mission |
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| 28 | 2001 – American Dennis Tito becomes the first tourist in space after paying the Russian space program $20,000,000 |
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