About International Day of Human Space Flight
In 2011, the General Assembly of the UN, declared April 12th as the International Day of Human Space Flight “to celebrate each year at the international level the beginning of the space era for mankind, reaffirming the important contribution of space science and technology in achieving sustainable development goals and increasing the well-being of States and peoples, as well as ensuring the realization of their aspiration to maintain outer space for peaceful purposes.”
The date was chosen as it was on April 12th 1961 that the Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gargarin became the first person in space.
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