108 mins that stunned the world: Russia honors Gagarin

Tuesday, April 12, 2011 - 21:50 in Astronomy & Space

STAR CITY, Russia (Reuters) - His 108-minute flight into space 50 years ago set new a horizon for humanity and overnight turned a farmworker's son named Yuri Gagarin into one of the century's heroes.

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