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Who is known as the ‘Columbus of the Space Age’?
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Mithali Raj
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Yuri Gagarin
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Kalpana Chawla
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Leela Seth
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin’s name comes to mind when one talks about exploration of the universe. Called Columbus of the Cosmos, he was the first human being to witness the grandeur of the universe.
Detailed explanation-2: -April 12 was already a huge day in space history twenty years before the launch of the first shuttle mission. On that day in 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin (left, on the way to the launch pad) became the first human in space, making a 108-minute orbital flight in his Vostok 1 spacecraft.
Detailed explanation-3: -On April 12, 1961 he became the first human to orbit Earth. Gagarin’s spacecraft, Vostok 1, circled Earth at a speed of 27, 400 kilometers per hour.
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