Shuttle Pays Tribute to Gagarin

From: The Washington Post | Date: March 10, 1994 | Copyright information

Space shuttle Columbia's astronauts paid tribute to Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first human space traveler, on what would have been his 60th birthday.

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