Yuri Gregarin News Today

Program that culminates in a student competition. Students are encouraged to choose a topic in history and that can be anything, world history, local, national, state, ancient, modern, everything in between. As long they are interested in it. Then they go out and find they do research. And they find the resources to tell them the story, but also try to figure out the significance of their topics in history, so they are going into archives, into museums, into libraries, and they are sifting throu...

Program is based on the philosophy that we dont want to pull a stunt and risk a mans life. for this reason, there are certain intermediate steps planned before we put a man in orbit. if this is successful, then and only then will we orbit. >> the project was the first real response to the sputnik and to yuri gregarins flight and it was a big deal for us, ill tell you because all of a sudden we had seven guys and they are fighter pilot types, very alpha male guys, fun to be around. it was like be...