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Orkney commemorates first astronaut SPACE: HISTORY
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A DEFINING moment in the space race was commemorated yesterday at
one of Scotland's most famous historic sites.
A special stone, marking the anniversary of Russia rst sending a
man into space, was unveiled at the Skara Brae prehistoric village
on Orkney. The neolithic site there has a timeline marking some of
the most important events in history. Yesterday a new stone was put
on that timeline, inscribed "1961, First Man In Space".
The idea for the stone came from Alexander Korobk...
