Happy Yuri Day

[SpaceCoastVol]

Probably the wrong place for this, but....

https://www.rt.com/news/339292-yuri-gagarin-myths-busted/

Yuri Gagarin: 10 Facts to Know About the First Man in Outer Space

In the article below, the picture of Yuri with the car is taken in front of the museum that houses most of his artifacts. I went there once when I was in Moscow, and it was the first time I saw that his spacecraft had ejection rails. It wasn't known until the 80s (I believe) that he had ejected on purpose. Until that was made public, he held the altitude record until it was broken by another spaceflight. The reasons that the Russians kept that secret was because to have the altitude record, you have to land in the craft in which you took off.


http://rbth.com/science_and_tech/2016/04/12/remembering-yuri-gagarin_584075


So Happy Yuri Day. He was a very brave man in that time, and a worthy one to become the first man in space.

 

[LouderVol]

cool. interesting note about the ejection rails.

 

[volprof]

I was actually just thinking about him a day or two ago, with no immediate awareness that it was nearing the anniversary of his flight. I was thinking about my life, most of our lives, and how pathetic they are in that most of us will never do anything remarkable for its boldness and/or bravery. (It's kind of sad in a way.) He was 27 when he took that flight. I asked myself would I rather have to go out onto the battlefield at age 27 or be the first man to fly into space at age 27. Honestly, although I've never done either and will most likely never do either, I think I'd prefer the battlefield option. It takes another level of "can-do" to be the first guy to go up into space, and, if I'm not mistaken, at the time they didn't even know for certain whether or not a person could survive in space, although they thought it likely you could.

Yuri Gagarin's is one of the most remarkable stories in human history. A truly great man and a truly great historical feat.

 

[davethevol]

Cool stuff. It sounds like he was just an all around amazing person.

 

[joevol33]

I was actually just thinking about him a day or two ago, with no immediate awareness that it was nearing the anniversary of his flight. I was thinking about my life, most of our lives, and how pathetic they are in that most of us will never do anything remarkable for its boldness and/or bravery. (It's kind of sad in a way.) He was 27 when he took that flight. I asked myself would I rather have to go out onto the battlefield at age 27 or be the first man to fly into space at age 27. Honestly, although I've never done either and will most likely never do either, I think I'd prefer the battlefield option. It takes another level of "can-do" to be the first guy to go up into space, and, if I'm not mistaken, at the time they didn't even know for certain whether or not a person could survive in space, although they thought it likely you could.

Yuri Gagarin's is one of the most remarkable stories in human history. A truly great man and a truly great historical feat.

I'm lost on the whole story, but interested to look it up now.

 

[BearCat204]

We celebrate "Yuri's Night" here in Huntsville every year. It's a pretty cool party

 

[MT LeConte]

Thanks for posting, very interesting.

The Russians have built some of the best and most reliable rockets in the space industry. They have had few failures. Some of their other space hardware has not been as sound. They have quite a record of failed satellites and probes crashing into the moon and planets. They still can't even get their Global Positioning System up and running decades after ours has been operational.

 

[Rasputin_Vol]

opcorn:

 

[MockingVol]

Yuri means something very different to me... Suffices to say this thread left me dissapointed.

 

[Grand Vol]

Yuri Gagarin certainly was a pioneer just like many of those brave men were to brave the unknown. Especially with the technology as limited as it was back then.

But overall, he was an ambassador to the world and respected everywhere he went. This photo with the Gemini 4 astronauts was indicative of the competition, yet respect he got wherever he went:

 

[Vol knight]

Yuri means something very different to me... Suffices to say this thread left me dissapointed.

This.