April 12 INTERNATIONAL DAY OF MAN FLYING IN SPACE! To honor the historic journey of the Russian Gagarin, and his round elliptical around the Earth, UNESCO designated April 12 as "International Day of Human Space Flight." Braids done on April 12, 1961 Yuri Gagarin opened the way for manned missions to space exploration. At even four years after the launch of Sputnik he had opened the space era, was the man to overcome the boundaries of the atmosphere. Supremacy acquired at the height of the space race that saw the US and USSR bitter rivals. Today many things have changed since that first flight that took Gagarin to 108 minutes among the stars and space exploration is considered impossible without a strong and broad international cooperation. April 12, 1961 Yuri Gagarin opened the way for manned missions to space exploration. At even four years after the launch of Sputnik he had opened the space era, was the man to overcome the boundaries of the atmosphere. Supremacy acquired at the height of the space race that saw the US and Soviet Union bitter rivals. Today many things have changed since that first flight that took Gagarin to 108 minutes among the stars and space exploration is considered impossible without a strong and broad international cooperation. This is demonstrated, for example, the International Space Station: the largest structure ever built in space was developed in cooperation between the United States, Russia, Canada, Europe and Japan. The Earth is blue "I see the Earth. It is blue." With these words, Yuri Gagarin, age twenty-seven, enshrines the dawn of a new era. Since then, the way the man saw the immensity of the universe has not been the same since. The departure is scheduled at 9:07 hours Moscow time zone. Gagarin utters the famous words - поехали! (Pojechali - "let's go!") When taking off in the Vostok 1 (East 1), driven by a computer-controlled basis. The rocket carries him beyond the atmosphere. Gagarin runs an entire elliptical orbit around our planet at a speed of just over 27,000 kilometers times. The maximum orbital altitude of 302 kilometers, the minimum 175. The first manned flight into space, finally ending with the landing in a field near the town of Takhtarova. It lasted less than two hours, more than enough to go down in history. After that adventure, the first cosmonaut of history, the "Cristoforo Colombo" space receives glories and honors by conferring the Order of Lenin, the highest Soviet award, the baptism of the asteroid 1772 Gagarin, named in his honor. Not bad for a boy of humble origins, born of peasant carpenter father and mother in a small village in western European Russia. Excellent results in science subjects at school, a diploma for machine-building, but one great passion: flying. It was this passion that led him to enter the Russian air force, where he was chosen as a test driver, until 1959, when the candidates entered in the squad for the first flight into space. A life spent in airplanes. And in flight also he met his death. It was only 34 when on March 27, 1968 died on board a training fighter. A year later, Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin planted the American flag in the dusty lunar soil. The Volstok Of the total weight of 4.7 tons and 4.4 meters high, the Vostok 1 ( "East 1" in Russian) was made up of two parts: a living form of spherical shape, which housed the astronaut, and a module service provided with the on-board instrumentation, retrorockets necessary to brake and shifting the probe to Earth and 16 tanks containing oxygen and nitrogen. The inhabited capsule was equipped with three portholes, an optical viewer to orient hand, a camera, instrumentation for detecting pressure, temperature and orbital parameters, a hatchback and an ejector seat along more or less as the passenger compartment of a Fiat 500 ( era cosmonaut landed not with the ship, but was expelled outside and parachuted to Earth during re-entry. Honor then to the great Gagarin who had a name as well as amateur radio but not if I understand if it really was his hi ..... Its a little bit of history here: https://www.radioamatore.info/help-...12042011-cinquanta-anni-fa-il-volo-di-gagarin (sorry for the bad translation.... is made by Google translate , hi ! ) 73 de IW2BSF - Rudy
