Yuri Gagarin - Anniversary

ChrisR777
ChrisR777 Community Member Posts: 1,890 Championing
edited April 13 in Coffee lounge

The media haven't been very forthcoming with this news, perhaps politics has something to do with it?

Yesterday marked the 65th anniversary of the first manned space flight, with the 27yo Lieutenant Yuri Gagarin being that man.

Whatever anyone thinks of the land of his birth, his courage is evident.

https://www.bta.bg/en/news/archives/1104398-april-12-1961-65th-anniversary-of-world-s-first-manned-space-flight

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  • ChrisR777
    ChrisR777 Community Member Posts: 1,890 Championing
    edited April 13
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1117586#Comment_1117586

    I think politics just might. There are only 2 countries i can think of where the international rules don't seem to apply! 🤔

    I have read somewhere that he only had a 50/50 chance of coming back alive!

  • michael57
    michael57 Community Member Posts: 3,408 Championing

    I used to work with an old retired lumberjack on a farm years ago he would go to Russia for six weeks holiday every year the tales he used to come back with were very entertaining

  • ChrisR777
    ChrisR777 Community Member Posts: 1,890 Championing
    edited April 13

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