50th Anniversary Celebration of Yuri Gagarin

[Blue_Tires]

A mere 60 years before Gagarin, humanity was still using gliders and balloons...Did they ever imagine advancement would come this quickly?



A half-century on, Yuri Gagarin stands tall
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/a-half-century-on-yuri-gagarin-stands-tall/2011/04/11/AFkdfhKD_story.html

What Yuri Gagarin saw: First Orbit film to reveal the view from Vostok 1
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2011/apr/11/yuri-gagarin-first-orbit-vostok

108 mins that stunned the world: Russia honors Gagarin
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/11/us-russia-gagarin-anniversary-idUSTRE73A2Z720110411

Gagarin: 'A Great Soviet Hero Who Easily Crossed Into Being A Great Russian Hero'
http://www.rferl.org/content/yury_gagarin_jamie_doran_starman_book_anniversary/3553732.html

'Yuri's Night' to celebrate space exploration
http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/article_4738fba0-5313-591f-aee0-e9b9bd3c727c.html

Reaching for the stars
http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/04/human_spaceflight

Celebrating Yuri's spirit of exploration (photos)
http://news.cnet.com/2300-11386_3-10007358.html

A History of Human Spaceflight
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/history/features/gagarin/gagarin.html

The Space Shuttle Era: 1981-2011
http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/the_shuttle/

[FLPanhandle]

1. Major human milestone

Not to mention it took a lot of guts to do that.

[Blue_Tires]

2. more links:

Today's dual anniversaries find space competitors now comrades
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7517364.html

Russia Seeks to Restore Space Glory
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,756382,00.html


Gagarin's Golden Anniversary: The High Price of Going First
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2064730,00.html#ixzz1JJJMXcEL

At Heaven's Gate: 50 Years After Humans First Reached Space, What Frontiers Remain?
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=first-person-in-space-yuri-gagarin

Uncertainty Plagues NASA at 50th Anniversary of Human Spaceflight
http://www.space.com/11360-nasa-space-shuttle-yuri-gagarin-spaceflight-anniversaries.html

Gagarin in his daughter’s words
http://www.euronews.net/2011/04/12/gagarin-in-his-daughter-s-words/

Online Archive Chronicles 'Field of Victories' in Space
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/online-archive-chronicles-field-of-victories-in-space/434857.html

Space Program in Time Warp 50 Years On
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/space-program-in-time-warp-50-years-on/434863.html

Last legends of early space flight laud Gagarin
http://www.france24.com/en/20110411-last-legends-early-space-flight-laud-gagarin

Gagarin could have died on 'glitch-prone flight'
http://www.france24.com/en/20110411-gagarin-could-have-died-glitch-prone-flight

Russia celebrates Gagarin's conquest of space
http://www.france24.com/en/20110412-russia-celebrates-gagarins-conquest-space-0

[Starry Messenger]

3. k&r

[blindpig]

4. A tremendous Socialist triumph.

[Octafish]

5. KRB

Thank you, Blue_Tires! Outstanding post and great links!



What we could do if we applied our know-how to the peaceful exploration of space,
rather than wasting it on conquering and controlling oil, people and whatever passes for elections.

[malaise]

6. K & R

Wish I had seen this yesterday

:applause: