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π #OTD in 1959 #Luna1 was launched from the #Baikonur Cosmodrome. Dubbed First Cosmic Ship it became the 1β£st spacecraft to escape Earth's velocity and the 1β£st one to reach the vicinity of Earth's Moon. βοΈ Most important space achievement after Sputnik and before Gagarin! π°οΈ https://t.co/uOjAIoWpEe — PolitiTweet.org