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‘BEYOND: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet’ hits shelves in April Sputnik; Pixabay; Stephen Walker/Harper, 2021 The new book details, among other things, the many different stories that made up the Space Race between the USSR and the U.S. in different areas of the world, as well as the enormous risk Gagarin took to make the historic step for mankind. “In America, it is still the evening of April 11. Millions will be watching their youthful new...

Double anniversary means doubles all round, are we right? Richard Speed Mon 12 Apr 2021 // 20:03 UTC Share Copy Join us in raising a toast in celebration of both the 60th anniversary of Yuri Gagarins orbit of the Earth and 40 years since the first Space Shuttle left the pad. Gagarins flight, on 12 April 1961, marked the first of a human into orbit. The mission, aboard the Vostok 3KA spacecraft, lasted less than two hours from lift-off until Gagarin reached the ground, vi...

By Clara Ferreira Marques “The past should be remembered. You can, and should, be proud of it,” cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin told an interviewer last year. “But you cannot live on it.” Russia’s once-pioneering space industry should take note. Sixty years ago this month, with a rallying cry of “Poekhali!” (roughly, “Let’s go!”) and a 108-minute flight, Yuri Gagarin became the

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Published: April 7, 2021 at 12:16 pm On 12 April 1961, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin made history when he became the first man to journey into space. Stephen Walker delves into the story of Gagarin’s gruelling secret mission and the seismic battle between the world’s superpowers to conquer the new frontier: space. Find out more Advertisement Stephen Walker is the author of Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space (William Collins, 2021)

April 1, 2021 Weining Ai was awarded the annual Stephen G. Walker Graduate Support Fellowship from the School of Politics and Global Studies at Arizona State University for the 2020–21 academic year. The fund for this award was established by former School of Politics and Global Studies students in honor of Emeritus Professor Stephen Walker, who was a faculty member in the Department of Political Science from 1969 until his retirement in 2003. It is intended to support stu...

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Pi Day 2021 a Far Cry from when Autism Was In the Media in the 20-Teens Yesterday was March 14, 2021. Also known as Pi day, for the mathematical 3.14159265359..., the ratio of the circumference of any circle to the diameter of that circle. Daniel Tammet, he of the book Born on a Blue Day and a man on the spectrum, holds the record for memorizing the first 22,514 digits. Tammet was in the spotlight in the 20-teens, the heyday of autism books, memoirs and societys fascination, interest and atten...

A majority of MLAs back a DUP bill to prevent abortions in cases of non-fatal disabilities.

BBC News By Stephen Walker Published image copyrightGetty Images It is "outrageous" that the Stormont executive has not set aside any money to mark Northern Irelands centenary, the TUV leader Jim Allister has said. He was speaking as MLAs on an assembly committee questioned Department of Finance officials about the executives budget for 2021-22. Mr Allister said it was a "deplorable fact" that not a "single penny" had been allocated for centenary events. An official said the UK government was f...