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Author Topic: Yuri's Night 2011  (Read 988 times)

Online cosworth151

Yuri's Night 2011
« on: April 12, 2011, 01:39:12 PM »
50 years ago today, 12 April 1961, Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin became the first person in space. His Vostok 1 spacecraft was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and completed one orbit.

The Yuri's Night celebrations begane in 2004.

http://yurisnight.net/

Today is also the 30th anniversary of the Space Shuttle's first orbital flight. John Young and Robert Crippen flew the Columbia for 37 orbits.

Over the week-end, I asked a number of people to name the first person in space. Sadly, not one person named Gagarin.


“You can search the world over for the finer things, but you won't find a match for the American road and the creatures that live on it.”
― Bob Dylan

Offline Ian

Re: Yuri's Night 2011
« Reply #1 on: April 12, 2011, 02:16:01 PM »
Unbelievable ain't it Cos, but Gagarin was'nt actually the first man into space. The Russians put another man up first as a test but he never orbited the Earth, just up into space and down again. I've been searching for his name but with no luck.
An aircraft landing is just a controlled crash.

Offline lkjohnson1950

Re: Yuri's Night 2011
« Reply #2 on: April 13, 2011, 06:34:12 AM »
There have been persistent rumors that Gargarin wasn't the first Russian to orbit Earth, just the first to come back.  :o

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Online cosworth151

Re: Yuri's Night 2011
« Reply #3 on: April 13, 2011, 12:33:07 PM »
Unbelievable ain't it Cos, but Gagarin was'nt actually the first man into space. The Russians put another man up first as a test but he never orbited the Earth, just up into space and down again. I've been searching for his name but with no luck.

The US did that twice. Alan Shepard in Freedom 7 & Gus Grissom in Liberty Bell 7. Both were Mercury spacecraft atop Redstone boosters.
“You can search the world over for the finer things, but you won't find a match for the American road and the creatures that live on it.”
― Bob Dylan

 


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