50 years ago today: Yuri Gagarin makes first manned spaceflight

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50 years ago today: Yuri Gagarin makes first manned spaceflight

Postby beaky » Tue Apr 12, 2011 9:32 am

And the first manned Earth orbit, BTW... the Soviets were still making huge strides at that time.

A cool tribute film here, with a lot of modern footage but the original mission audio.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/1 ... 47921.html
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Re: 50 years ago today: Yuri Gagarin makes first manned spaceflight

Postby Webb » Tue Apr 12, 2011 8:18 pm

Strictly speaking, Yuri Gagarin was the first man in space (if you don't count all of the dead cosmonauts that the Soviet Union covered up) but he did not complete the first space flight.
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