Fifty Years Of Manned Space Flight
In an obvious Communist plot against the US, the Soviet Union launched Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin into space in a Vostok capsule on the centennial of the American Civil War on April 12th, 1961.
VVS Major Gagarin, returned after orbiting the Earth for just under two hours, and the race to the Moon was on.
The BBC’s article, Yuri Gagarin: The journey that shook the world, is better than CNN’s, but CNN has video.
Even Google has celebrated, as you will notice if you do a search. The most informative articles are in Russian, so I won’t annoy you with links.
Notes: BOCTOK = Vostok = ‘East’, VVS = Soviet Air Force, CCCP = SSSR = USSR
