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It was the Cristobal Columbus space. 55 years ago, when the world was another world, Yuri Alexeievitch Gagarin , with those names and that name may well be a character in Dostoyevsky , became change the first man to orbit the Earth, leaving the atmosphere, entering an immensity not yet unveiled. He was the first man in space, the pioneer, the advance, the colonizer, if that had been colonized.
All lasted 108 minutes: only one Earth orbit . Gagarin, who was a boy of 27 years just fulfilled, married with two daughters, wholesale air force then Soviet Union, crewed, as a single pilot and crew, the spacecraft Vostok 1 , climbed 302 kilometers up to a speed of 20,000 kilometers per hour and left behind the gravity of Earth, in a knickknack with less than that of a video game console and less memory in his cockpit that it has today’s cell phone every day.
It was laconic, very Soviet, did not leave a message for the story, as would eight years after the first man on the moon, Neil Armstrong. A Gagarin will compute a sentence hour and 48 minutes of his achievement: “The flight is developing normally and I’m fine.”
When you reach the Earth safely, he acted as what was supposed to be a good communist. He said: “Inform the party, the government and personally to Khruschev cosmic landing ship in which I was normally performed”. Then he was less formal and more accurate: “The sky is completely dark and the Earth has a very light blue”.
she had begun a new era in the world. The anonymous journalist who headlined the cover of Clarin April 13, put it in those words “12-IV-1961: a new era begins. Man Invades Space “. It was just a taste of world sparking jubilation feat.
That world then he was involved in the marshlands of the Cold War. The Khruschev who wanted Gagarin to inform him of his landing, he was the leader of world communism and was engaged in defeating the United States in the space race that had just begun and that there had as origin, at least in the soul of the Soviet conquer a new world, but spying from space to the United States, which in turn spied from the air to the USSR with its seated in air bases in Turkey and Afghanistan aircraft. This is a fantastic book account Serguei, Khruschev’s son living in Rhode Island.
The truth was that the USSR then outstripped the United States. In 1957 it had launched the first artificial satellite, “ Sputnik “, and in November of that year another ship manned by a dog, “ Laika “, who died on reaching Earth the first martyr of space. Soviet audacity made a reporter asked a US scientist prestigious American science what he thought they would find on the moon. And the guy said “Russians”.
Gagarin’s feat that the United States did prompt the NASA as the mother ship of the battle for the conquest of space. Then President John Kennedy announced in September 1962 the decision of his government to send a man to the moon before the end of that decade were fantastic 60s. Thus he began the conquest of space, which is not over yet started.
To Gagarin was all the glory. He was promoted, awarded and declared a “Hero of the Soviet Union,” praised him politicians, sang the poets, the Vatican said of his adventure: “A memorable moment,” traveled around the world to promote his feat and the USSR, wrote a book, “I see the Earth” and fleeting as his journey into space, was killed on March 27, 1968, at age 34, under the command of a MiG-15UTI that crashed in Novosyolovo near Moscow. His ashes rest in the Kremlin walls
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