50th Anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's flight into space(yurigagarin50.org)
yurigagarin50.org
50th Anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's flight into space
http://yurigagarin50.org/
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for those interested: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKs6ikmrLgg&feature=chann...
"A real time recreation of Yuri Gagarin's pioneering first orbit, shot entirely in space from on board the International Space Station."
"A real time recreation of Yuri Gagarin's pioneering first orbit, shot entirely in space from on board the International Space Station."
After recently reading that Vostok 1 was not designed for a soft landing and that Gagarin had to eject and parachute during re-entry, I realized that a Soviet Union centered version of The Right Stuff could make a compelling story.
Agreed, there are some amazing stories (some horrifying as well) from the early days of the Soviet manned space program.
It just struck me how nonchalant he had to be to start the first manned space flight in history of humanity with word "Poyehaly". As if he was taking a road-trip to the nearby town.
Neither were good days to be American, and while it's merely a coincidence (I'm sure the connection would be more prominent in Soviet literature had the date been intentional) it makes me wonder what blows to the US nationhood may be waiting to strike on April 12, 2061? China? Martians? Almost something as seemingly unlikely to us today as space flight was to the Wright Brothers in 1911, and a Civil War would have been to the founding fathers in 1811.
Civil War Source http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13040351