It had to do with religious freedom
They believed every human had rights and deserved to live
<span>In light of Amendment VI, a 1963 Supreme Court decision in Gideon v. Wainright specified court-appointed attorneys. </span>
On April 12, 1961, aboard the spacecraft Vostok 1, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin becomes the first human being to travel into space. During the flight, the 27-year-old test pilot and industrial technician also became the first man to orbit the planet, a feat accomplished by his space capsule in 89 minutes.
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