{"id":4060,"date":"2026-04-12T00:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T04:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4060"},"modified":"2026-04-12T10:53:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T14:53:47","slug":"space-accomplishments-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4060","title":{"rendered":"International Day of Human Space Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>International Day of Human Space Flight was created by the United Nations in 2011.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yuri Gagarin<\/strong> <strong>in 1961 was the first human to travel in space.<\/strong> A Soviet cosmonaut, Gagarin was aboard <em>Vostok I<\/em> and spent 108 minutes in space.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Space Shuttle\u2019s first flight<\/strong> occurred in 1981. Astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen guided the space shuttle <em>Columbia<\/em> around the earth 36 times before landing the craft at Edwards Air Force Base in California on April 14. Idea: Children could find out how the shuttle differed from the previous types of space exploration. Children could explore a list of the <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">135 Space Shuttle Missions<\/span><\/strong> at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission\/space-shuttle-missions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Space Shuttle Missions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jake Garn<\/strong> became the first senator to travel in space. He was a payload specialist of a <em>Discovery<\/em> STS-51-D crew that was launched in 1985. The crew spent almost seven days in space. Children could learn more about his Space Shuttle mission at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/atoms\/files\/garn-j.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jake Garn<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>These three important space travel events happened on this day. Children could make a timeline of significant space explorations.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Day of Human Space Flight was created by the United Nations in 2011.\u00a0 Yuri Gagarin in 1961 was the first human to travel in space. A Soviet cosmonaut, Gagarin was aboard Vostok I and spent 108 minutes in space. Space Shuttle\u2019s first flight occurred in 1981. Astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen guided the <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4060' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6198,825,2528,2525,2527,2526,2523,2524,323,2522,2521,2520],"class_list":["post-4060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-april-12-birthdays","tag-columbia","tag-dsciovery-crew","tag-edwards-air-force-base","tag-first-senator-to-travel-in-space","tag-jake-garn","tag-john-young","tag-robert-crippen","tag-soviet-union","tag-space-shuttle","tag-vostok-i","tag-yuri-gagarin","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4060"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30545,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4060\/revisions\/30545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}