Poyekhali! April 12 1961 50 years ago

[+Gepard 11,181]

50 years ago a big step for the mankind was done. The first man left the earth, rounded it and landed safely. His name: Yuri Gagarin

 

 

 

When his Vostok spacecraft started its engine Gagarin called. "Poyekhali!" = "Lets go!" = "Auf gehts!" And from this moment the exploring of the space began.

A long line of brave men and women followed Gagarin. Cosmonauts, Astronauts, Spacionauts, Taikonauts, Raumflieger. May you call him what you want. For me they are heros! All of them.

Edited April 11, 2011 by Gepard

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[Gr.Viper 131]

Cosmonauts, Astronauts, Spacionauts, Taikonauts, Raumflieger

And of course

!!!!

 

Anyway...

50 years of humans falling back onto the planet and constantly missing. That's a good day! Especially for my granny who's been mesmerized with space for decades, worked as a director of a planetarium and met quite a few cosmonauts and now old as hell rocket scientists.

[+daddyairplanes 10,127]

keep in mind if it wasnt for the space race we wouldnt have many of our modern innovations. like Tang!

 

[Siddley 9]

A long line of brave men and women followed Gagarin. Cosmonauts, Astronauts, Spacionauts, Taikonauts, Raumflieger. May you call him what you want. For me they are heros! All of them.

 

Damn right

[PraetorH 166]

The current Google-image is perfectly fitting... Regardless of ideology, he was the first man to go where no man has gone before.

Salute!

 

On a sad note, it is ironic that this man died in an old MiG-15.

[Capitaine Vengeur 263]

The mother of one of my colleagues was in love with Gagarin when young, and probably wasn't the only one. The Soviets had chosen the pretty boy with the nice proletarian grin, a good example of worldwide public relations.

[Gr.Viper 131]

Hey, they made a free movie for the event!

http://www.firstorbit.org/

http://www.youtube.com/user/firstorbit

[FastCargo 412]

To Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin and all who came after...

 

To 50 years of manned space flight!

 

VR

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[+Stary 2,427]

the first that returned... alive