Happy Cosmonaut Day

Apr 11, 2011 23:56

i honestly forgot it was today

as someone else put it better than I could:
_On this day (at least, an hour from now by my clock), we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the flight of Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, who, on April 12, 1961, became the first man to orbit the earth. He blazed the trail for the future of the human exploration and ( Read more... )

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gelbes_gilatier April 12 2011, 18:03:27 UTC
Thank you so much for that! Yesterday, they interviewed some random people on German television and there were actually people who didn't know who Yuri Gargarin was and that made me so sad :( (he was one of my childhood heroes, along with Valentina Terezhkova and Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg...). Again, thank you!

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adafrog April 13 2011, 01:16:27 UTC
:D

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