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UN celebrates World Space Week
Vienna, Oct 8 (IANS) A sculpture of late Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was presented to the UN office here Friday to celebrate '50 Years of Human Spaceflight', the theme of the World Space Week 2011.
The space week is observed every year Oct 4-10 following its declaration by the 55th UN General Assembly on Dec 6, 1999.
In 1961, Gagarin completed an orbit around the Earth aboard the Vostok 1 spacecraft,
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