Yuri Gagarin was the first human in space. He is a Soviet hero and national figure, and his name reminds us of the potential of human space travel and exploration. Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space and the first human to orbit...
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Yuri Gagarin was the first human in space. He is a Soviet hero and national figure, and his name reminds us of the potential of human space travel and exploration. Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space and the first human to orbit the Earth in 1961.
Honor to the Astronaut (click) (Jaromír Hnilička / Pavel Pácl, translation L.M., sung by Gustav Brom 4/12/1961) The whole world heard the news from the Soviets, the whole world suspended all its chats. The whole world jumped away from radios, and it turned all its eyes to the skies. Good morning, Mr major Gagarin, we couldn't wait but now it is here. The whole world drank wine red as your flag, people were waving all of their hands. 2x Tell the guys who live on the stars, tell the guys who... Read Full Story
Forty-eight years ago today, Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space . He rode the Soviet spaceship Vostok 1 into orbit, shocking America and the world with a major PR coup…and an incredible achievement.
Not the best pilot
Gagarin was s good pilot, but not the best. Cosmonaut Gherman Titov, who’s flight followed Gagain’s, was widely consider more skilled.
Khrushchev liked Gagarin
Nonetheless, Gagarin was a good communist and he was from good peasant stock. Khrushchev... Read Full Story
If the venerable television series “Star Trek” has taught us one thing, it’s that the holodeck will never work properly and you should never go in there. But if it’s taught us two things, the second must be that space is the final frontier. Even when we’ve managed to learn everything there is to know about Earth, there will still be mysteries to explore in space. Are there intelligent species living far beyond our solar system? What exactly is dark matter? Could wormholes hold the secret to... Read Full Story
Years before Pink Floyd recorded anything, the Soviet spacecraft, Luna 3, took the first picture of the darkside of the moon. Groundbreaking Missions. No Photos. Earlier probes did interesting work. Luna 1 performed a number of scientific experiments on its lunar flyby mission in January 1959. For example, it revealed that the moon had no magnetic field. And the September 1959 flight of Luna 2 became the first craft to land (actually crash) on the moon, impacting east of Mare Serenitatis... Read Full Story
In 1961, President John F. Kennedy challenged the American people in his address to Congress. This challenge issued a commitment to the goal of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth before the decade ended. This had a lot to do with the fact that the American space efforts were far behind those of the Soviet Union. In order to narrow the Russian lead, it would take billions of dollars in tax money, the courage of many astronauts, and the intelligence and hard labor of... Read Full Story
Wikizines are interactive magazines that anyone can create or edit - and this one is called "Yuri Gagarin". Here you can find fresh voices and respond in real time. Some members write articles about recent news and trends related to the wikizine's topic, others recount relevant personal stories or share their favorite pictures and video clips. Got an interesting idea or story to share with other members of this wikizine? Well, then put on your journalist's cap and add your own article... Read Full Story
Google ran on Thursday this Doodle logo, honoring the anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s becoming the first human to orbit the Earth:
Google ran a logo with aliens last March, in honor of Percival Lowell, and announcing the launch of Google Mars:
I’d totally buy a children’s book by Dennis Hwang about the aliens.
Okay, gotta run home. [...] Read Full Story
<<In 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first man to go into space and orbit the Earth. Two years later, Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space (she orbited the earth 48 times — take that, Yuri). By the end of the decade, the Apollo teams, rising to President [...] Read Full Story
The Soviets were anxious to put a crew aboard Mir...but they weren’t yet done with Salyut-7.
...To make it work, the Soviets altered to orbit of Mir, using the propulsion systems from two unmanned supply ships (called Progress 25 and Progress 26). Read Full Story
Not many people know that the Soviets launched military space stations. There were 3 such stations, secretly called Alamaz, but publicly referred to as Salyut—the name the Soviets gave to their non-military space stations. The Last Military Space Station Yuri Glazkov, who died today at 69, was a crew members of the last mission to the last military space station ever flown.
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