{"id":375914,"date":"2026-04-12T13:01:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T13:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/375914\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T13:01:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T13:01:11","slug":"65-years-since-humanitys-first-spaceflight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/375914\/","title":{"rendered":"65 years since humanity\u2019s first spaceflight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/deccanherald\/2026-04-12\/v4970scv\/liftoff-vostok-1.jpg.webp.webp\"   alt=\"Vostok-1 blasts off from Baikonur Cosmodrome. \" class=\"qt-image\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Vostok-1 blasts off from Baikonur Cosmodrome.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\ude80 Today marks 6\ufe0f\u20e35\ufe0f\u20e3 years since humanity ventured into space \u2013 a historic feat accomplished by our cosmonaut, an outstanding Soviet citizen, Yuri <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Gagarin?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#Gagarin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 1\ufe0f\u20e30\ufe0f\u20e36\ufe0f\u20e3 minutes of Yuri Gagarin\u2019s flight changed the course of world history.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc49 Learn more: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3nkf08JHu3\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/3nkf08JHu3<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/odtKEc2Xmj\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/odtKEc2Xmj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MFA Russia \ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\uddfa (@mfa_russia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mfa_russia\/status\/2043089091256819999?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 11, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Published 12 April 2026, 04:42 IST<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vostok-1 blasts off from Baikonur Cosmodrome.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude80 Today marks 6\ufe0f\u20e35\ufe0f\u20e3 years since humanity ventured into space \u2013 a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[196099,196094,196096,49995,196110,196111,196101,196090,196095,196097,196112,196106,196104,196108,196102,196098,111,139,69,196107,147,196105,196093,392,86033,196109,196091,196100,196092,196089,196103],"class_list":{"0":"post-375914","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-alan-shepard-first-american-in-space","9":"tag-april-12-1961-history","10":"tag-baikonur-cosmodrome-launch","11":"tag-cold-war-space-race","12":"tag-early-space-missions","13":"tag-earth-orbit-first-human","14":"tag-explorer-1-1958","15":"tag-first-human-in-space","16":"tag-first-man-in-space","17":"tag-gagarin-108-minutes-flight","18":"tag-gagarin-legacy","19":"tag-global-space-race-history","20":"tag-human-spaceflight-milestone","21":"tag-international-day-of-human-space-flight","22":"tag-moon-landing-1969","23":"tag-nasa-vs-soviet-union","24":"tag-new-zealand","25":"tag-newzealand","26":"tag-nz","27":"tag-russia-space-history","28":"tag-science","29":"tag-soviet-space-achievements","30":"tag-soviet-union-space-race","31":"tag-space","32":"tag-space-exploration-history","33":"tag-space-science-milestones","34":"tag-spaceflight-anniversary-2026","35":"tag-sputnik-launch-1957","36":"tag-vostok-mission","37":"tag-yuri-gagarin-1961","38":"tag-yuri-gagarin-anniversary"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}