Today is known by Space Geeks as "Yuri's Night". On this date in 1961, Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel into space, as well as orbit the Earth.After the flight, Gagarin became an instant, worldwide celebrity, touring widely to promote the Soviet achievement.
That was 45 years ago, during the Cold War, and the USA was pissed because The USSR beat us into space (Click to enlarge the newspaper below for details).
2 comments:
Rooskies made it up. It never happened, nor did an American ever walk on the moon. Give them props for having enough sense to make it up before we did.
those were the times that men were still men....:-)
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