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Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin

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Yuri Gagarin

Yuri Gagarin was a Soviet cosmonaut famous for being the first human ever to enter space, spending 108 minutes orbiting the globe in the Vostok 1 spacecraft.

Sputnik 1

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Sputnik 1

How did the universe begin?

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How did the universe begin?

Where do meteorites come from?

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Where do meteorites come from?

astronaut on moon

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NASA is going back to the moon but most people in the US don't want to

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Tiangong space station

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SpaceX is about to launch a sail propelled through space by sunshine

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Don't miss: men on the moon, robots in orbit and museums in the street

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Don't miss: men on the moon, robots in orbit and museums in the street

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Mercury

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How Mercury and Venus can guide our hunt for alien life on exoplanets

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A comet in the solar system

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ESA plans triple spacecraft to lurk in wait for a speedy comet

After the success of Rosetta, the European Space Agency plans to launch three spacecraft to wait in space until a speedy comet from the edge of the solar system passes by

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Albert Einstein

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OSIRIS-REx spacecraft captures closest ever image of asteroid Bennu

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Cosmic microwave background

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General relativity