45 years ago, april 12, 1961, First human in space |
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45 years ago, april 12, 1961, First human in space |
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 Apr 12 2006, 02:49 PM
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This day 45 years ago: Juri Gagarin became the first human to travel into space and orbit the earth in Vostok 1.
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Apr 12 2006, 03:49 PM
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Rover Driver  Group: Members Posts: 1015 Joined: 4-March 04 Member No.: 47 |
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Apr 18 2006, 06:14 PM
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Always be polite and courteous...
Gagarin's manners got him into space By Simon Saradzyghan in Moscow Filed: 16/04/2006 He was hand picked for one of humanity's greatest ever solo missions - the Soviet Union's bid to stake the hammer and sickle flag in the heavens. But, 45 years after Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space, the real reason why he was chosen for his country's high honour has finally emerged. And know the major events of your nation's history... The little known details about Gagarin's selection were publicised last week to rekindle national pride in his exploits, after a poll by the All Russian Public Opinion Research Centre revealed that three out of 10 Russians were unaware that their country was the first to send someone into space. Full article here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml.../16/wyuri16.xml -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Apr 21 2006, 07:00 PM
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Belgian newspaper reported today:
cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin didn't meant anything special when he said: 'I flew in space but didn't see God ' on the contrary, Belgian Church-net was asked by Russian Interfax to specify GAGARIN was baptised and a religous man http://www.hln.be/hlns/cache/det/art_19650...n=categorieArt1 |
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May 10 2006, 02:22 PM
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Celebrating the first NASA tin-can-on-a-rocket flight:
http://sfa.jsc.nasa.gov/45years.cfm There was a special on the Mercury program leading up to Freedom 7's lauch on the NASA channel last week. It was clear from the breaks in the footage someone had edited out the string of failures leading up to Shepard's launch - the 60's dialog talked about the lessons learned from the failures while omitting the abortive events. The rapid conversion of a military missile to a manned platform was extremely risky. |
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Jun 3 2006, 06:15 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
Russian film about Korolev to come out in 2007:
http://www.energia.ru/english/energia/news...news_05-15.html -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Jun 3 2006, 06:18 PM
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Good! Sergei Pavlovich deserves this kind of honor. It's long overdue.
-the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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