While there, he met Valentina Ivanovna Goryacheva, a medical technician graduate of the Orenburg Medical School. Going very fast!" Kittinger had the right stuff. "I really thought that somebody would go higher than that pretty soon," he said with a chuckle. Democrats will maintain their majority in the House, but lost seats this election. The winner of Ohio has won the presidential election 93% of the time for over a century. 00:00 Start "We didn't have the PR that NASA had.". Born to Alexey Ivanovich Gagarin and Anna Timofeyevna Gagarina in the village of Klushino, Russia (Smolensky Oblast) on March 9th, 1934, Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin began his life on a collective farm and witnessed some terrible things in his early years. Between them, they have the best scientists in the world, many of whom they “borrowed” from Germany after the Second World War. If you’d like more info on the Yuri Gagarin, check out the History of Human Spaceflight, and here’s a link to Yuri Gagarin, The First Man in Space. What he is known to have said during the flight was: “The Earth is blue… How wonderful. Our Book is out! After seven decades in show business, and a 10-year break from acting, Sophia Loren returns to the screen with a standout performance in a new Netflix film, "The Life Ahead," directed by her son, Edoardo Ponti. Another version of Gagarin’s biography suggests that the family relocated east of the Urals ahead of the Nazi advance, and returned to the region after the war. https://www.amazon.com/Universe-Today-Ultimate-Viewing-Cosmos/dp/1624145442/, Audio Podcast version: But perhaps the most notable thing about Gagarin, for which he is remembered most fondly, is his smile. I said: 'Lord, take care of me now.' They talk with correspondent Seth Doane about her portrayal of a Holocaust survivor, and why the 86-year-old Academy Award-winner still approaches acting with the same spontaneity and anxiety as if it's her first movie role. Between 1961 and 1963, six manned spacecraft flew as part of the Mercury project. This ambitious undertaking was launched in 1958âabout a year after the U.S.S.R. had signified the start of the Space Age with the successful launch of the satellite Sputnik 1. It's doable, and Joe Kittinger did it. Out of the twenty selected, Gagarin and fellow cosmonaut Gherman Titov were selected to be the first cosmonauts to go into space. We have written many articles about Yuri Gagarin for Universe Today. Since 2001, Yuri’s Night, an international celebration, is held every April 12th to commemorate milestones in space exploration. New Yorker contributor Kelefa Sanneh talks with the Strand's owners, and with the owners of EyeSeeMe, an African-American children's bookstore in St. Louis, about how independent booksellers are finding ways to cope during the coronavirus pandemic, and about the community of readers that wants them to survive. 15:45 How close can binary stars be and still be habitable? On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin became the first people to reach the moon when they touched their lunar lander down in the Sea of Tranquility. Election Live Updates: Biden calls for unity as focus turns to transition, The election aftermath, and the power of the vote, Cedric Richmond says "defund the police" cost Democrats seats in the House, Jim Gaffigan on the painstaking, belabored marathon of an election, Biden projected winner, Trump not conceding yet, Kamala Harris to make history as the first Black woman vice president, No, these viral videos do not actually show election fraud, Exit polls show how Biden won the 2020 election, Joe Biden edges out Trump to win presidency in deeply divided nation, Pictures: Nation reacts after Joe Biden is projected to win 2020 election, Election Live Updates: Biden "honored and humbled" by results, Senate GOP declares "Senate is last line of defense", Rudy Giuliani says Trump will not concede election, Hillary Clinton reacts to projected Biden victory, Foreign leaders offer well wishes to Biden after projected win, Biden's victory comes 48 years to the day after his first Senate win, The pivotal post-Election Day dates you need to know. A man received two surprises after the East Troublesome Fire ravaged everything in its path near Granby, Colorado. It was test pilot Joe Kittinger. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/space/space-exploration/early-manned-spaceflight.html. And then I realized the balloon was standing still and that was me that was flying straight down. Michael Collins , first launched 18 July 1966 was born in Italy to American parents and was an American citizen when he went into space. Twitch: https://twitch.tv/fcain On that 483rd mission, flying at twice the speed of sound, "The world's greatest fighter pilot on the other side shot me down … and I ejected at Mach-1, at about 18,000 feet," he said. The launch pad at Baikonur Cosmodrome from which Sputnik 1 and Vostok 1 were launched is now known as Gagarin’s Start. "It's been 46 years. One thing is clear from this week's presidential election results: America is a deeply, almost evenly divided country. When a nursing facility outside Seattle found itself in the middle of the first known U.S. outbreak of COVID-19, the response was hampered by a lack of viable tests and a federal inspection that diverted time away from patient care. To this end robots and animals were blasted aloftâmost notably Mercury's Ham the chimpanzee and the Soviet dog Laika.