1961: FIRST MAN IN SPACE – British People React

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On the 12th of April 1961, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin – a former Soviet airforce pilot – became the first human being to reach space. The pioneering achievement was front-page news all over the globe. What did members of the British public think when they first saw the extraordinary headline “Man In Space”?

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