The astronaut likes to travel into space.

宇航员喜欢在太空翱翔。

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He knows not everyone has a chance to travel into space.

他知道不是每个人都有机会去太空旅行。

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That is fitting, for it is a copy of a Soviet-era work celebrating the achievements of Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, the Soviet cosmonaut who in 1961 became the first human being to travel into space.

没错，因为它就是前苏联纪念尤里·加加林的雕像的复制品。尤里·加加林，苏联宇航员，1961年成为进入外太空的第一人。

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But before NASA could send an astronaut into space, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin of the Soviet Union became the first person to travel in space.

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On May 28, 1959 a rhesus monkey named Able and a squirrel monkey named Miss Baker blasted off on an American Jupiter missile and became the first primates to successfully travel into space and return to Earth alive.

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So far, billions of dollars of taxpayers' cash has allowed only around 400 people to travel into space.

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Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet pilot, became the first human to travel into outer space a few years later, on April 12, 1961.

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