50 years ago, the first manned spaceflight took place in the Soviet Union, and the world has never been the same. Yuri Gagarin was the first human to complete an orbit of the Earth in his Vostok 1 capsule on April 12, 1961. (Alan Shepard was the second man in in space, but the first American, having piloted Freedom 7 some three weeks later on a suborbital, 15.5 minute spaceflight on May 5, 1961.)
Another fact, was the subsequent launch of STS-1, the first mission of the modern Space Shuttle program. Columbia flew for the first time, on April 12, 1981.
Almost all of the innovations we enjoy today (and take for granted), have their roots in preparing for, sustaining, or were created in laboratories designed for spaceflight.
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