Last Updated on 3 January 2024

April events from the history of space flight

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11960 – TIROS 1 launched, the first weather observation satellite
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41983 – Second U.S. space shuttle, Challenger, launched
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111970 – Apollo 13 launched
121961 – Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human in space
1981 – First U.S. space shuttle, Columbia, launched
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191971 – Soviet space station Salyut 1 launched
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241967 – 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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282001 – American Dennis Tito becomes the first tourist in space after paying the Russian space program $20,000,000
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