A film, in honor of Yuri Gagarin
50 years ago today, humanity took it's first tentative steps away from it's home, an event in my mind as transformative as the first fish to leave the water, or the first dinosaur to use its feathers to leave the ground.
In honor of Gagarin's first flight, NASA has created the firstorbit site, which shows a special film that follows the first orbit from start to finish. In our sped-up world world it may seem slow, but remember, to the first astronaut this was a two-hour leap into the unknown- we didn't even realize we could survive in zero-g.
And now a multinational crew on the International Space Station celebrates this anniversary, with former opponents now sharing space. If it seems at times we've stalled in our quest for space, think of how far we've actually come.
In honor of Gagarin's first flight, NASA has created the firstorbit site, which shows a special film that follows the first orbit from start to finish. In our sped-up world world it may seem slow, but remember, to the first astronaut this was a two-hour leap into the unknown- we didn't even realize we could survive in zero-g.
And now a multinational crew on the International Space Station celebrates this anniversary, with former opponents now sharing space. If it seems at times we've stalled in our quest for space, think of how far we've actually come.