Through Hardship To The Stars - The People's Friend
Through Hardship To The Stars By He was Russian cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, and this year marks the 60th anniversary of this incredible feat. From tiny capsules to huge shuttles Let’s start at the beginning. Russia and the United States were going head to head to be the first to put a man in space . It was an issue of pride and technology and the Russians just managed to win when they launched Yuri Gagarin aboard the tiny Vostok 1 into space for an (almost) full orbit of the Earth on April 12, 1961. The second Russian in space was the enigmatic Gherman Titov.
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