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Yuri Gagarin - First Man in Space (50th Anniversary)

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This April 12th 2011 marks the 50th Anniversary of the historic space flight of Yuri Gagarin on Vostok 1:techman::)
This was the time when man took his first steps to outer space:)

"I see Earth! It is so beautiful!"
- Yuri Gagarin

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Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin March 1934 – 27 March 1968, was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human to journey into outer space when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on April 12, 1961. Gagarin became an international celebrity, and was awarded many medals and honours, including Hero of the Soviet Union. Vostok 1 marked his only spaceflight, but he served as backup to the Soyuz 1 mission, which ended in a fatal crash. Gagarin later became deputy training director of the Cosmonaut Training Centre outside Moscow, which was later named after him. Gagarin died when a training jet he was piloting crashed in 1968.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Gagarin
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Yuri Gagarin's single orbit of Earth 50 years ago this month ushered in the era of human spaceflight:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12380744
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April 12th 1961 – Yuri Gagarin is about to see what no other person has seen in the history of humanity – the Earth from space. In the next 108 minutes he'll see more than most people do in a lifetime. What sights awaited the first cosmonaut silently gliding over the world below? What was it like to view the oceans and continents sailing by from such a height?
In a unique collaboration with the European Space Agency, and the Expedition 26/27 crew of the International Space Station, we have created a new film of what Gagarin first witnessed fifty years ago.

http://www.firstorbit.org/
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"Orbiting Earth in the spaceship, I saw how beautiful our planet is. People, let us preserve and increase this beauty, not destroy it!" - Yuri Gagarin
 
:rolleyes:Could somebody moves this thread to Miscellaneous, please?
Thank you:)
 
Curse you stupid environmentalists and silly Cold War treaties for keeping nuclear material out of orbit! We could have colonized Mars by now if we had put a few reactors up there!

Yuri would have wanted it that way!
 
Caliburn24 said:
Curse you stupid environmentalists and silly Cold War treaties for keeping nuclear material out of orbit! We could have colonized Mars by now if we had put a few reactors up there!

Yuri would have wanted it that way!
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Don't you remember the 1999 Alpha Base disaster?
 
Cracked had an article a few days ago about the Soviet space program. It's entertaining. If it's at least more-or-less accurate, the Soviet space program was not exactly up to OSHA standards.
 
Hey, if we curse out the OP, do we have the power to stop the thread from leaving TNZ? Because that would be kind of awesome.
 
Wow, that's making me feel kind of historic -- or perhaps just old -- myself. I remember Gagarin's flight; I was eleven years old.
 
Tora Ziyal said:
Wow, that's making me feel kind of historic -- or perhaps just old -- myself. I remember Gagarin's flight; I was eleven years old.
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I was just a tad older at 14 and remember this as well as the launch of Sputnik in 1957. A lot has happened in these 50 years, hasn't it?!?!
 
Candlelight said:
I was negative-17 years old. Man... what a time that was...
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-17? Sheesh, you're old. I was -26 and had some truly crazy times.

Anyway, go humanity! I wonder where we'll be at in another 50 years. Probably still just puttering around in orbit. I want to see humanity on mars before I die, dammit!
 
Just a fair warning to everyone, if we do get to Mars in my lifetime I plan to move there and organize a preemptive Red Faction movement.
 
Candlelight said:
6079SmithW said:
I want to see humanity on mars before I die, dammit!
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I want to be on Mars before I die!!
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Well, if you smoke some really good shit . . .

I was seven-and-a-half years old then. I don’t recall hearing anything about Gagarin’s flight at the time, but I do remember being aware of the U.S.–Soviet space rivalry — and the launch of the first Telstar communications satellite in 1962.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuA-fqKCiAE[/yt]
 
farmkid said:
Cracked had an article a few days ago about the Soviet space program. It's entertaining. If it's at least more-or-less accurate, the Soviet space program was not exactly up to OSHA standards.
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I wouldn't consider the absolute terror of dying alone in space or being incinerated to be 'entertaining.'

There's an awful lot we still don't know about the Soviet space program. We didn't even know they had the H-bomb until we detected fallout from the test. Their launches from Kazakhstan weren't known. And they were concealable. Unlike Cape Canaveral, Baikonur isn't right to next to civilization.

Ultimately I hope to see whatever secret list (I have no doubt one exists) of fatalities exists published. Let the dead rest in honor.

The USSR earned its place in history alongside other greats. History will never forget the names Gagarin, Korolev, and Tereshkova.
 
farmkid said:
Cracked had an article a few days ago about the Soviet space program. It's entertaining. If it's at least more-or-less accurate, the Soviet space program was not exactly up to OSHA standards.
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I think it's pretty awesome that Gagarin was willing to sacrifice his life for his friend like that (and vice versa). Definitely a man worthy of being the first human being in space. It sucks that he didn't live to see man reach the moon (he died on March 27, 1968) It's also pretty ironic that he went into space exactly 100 years to the day after the start of the American Civil War.
 
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