“April 12, 1961. A fairytale came true”
Colonel Yuri A. Gagarin was born on a collective farm in a region west of Moscow, Russia on March 9, 1934. His father was a carpenter. Yuri attended the local school for six years and continued his education at vocational and technical schools.
Yuri Gagarin joined the Russian Air Force in 1955 and graduated with honors from the Soviet Air Force Academy in 1957. Soon afterward, he became a military fighter pilot. By 1959, he had been selected for cosmonaut training as part of the first group of USSR cosmonauts.
Yuri Gagarin flew only one space mission. On April 12, 1961 he became the first human to orbit Earth. Gagarin's spacecraft, Vostok 1, circled Earth at a speed of 27,400 kilometers per hour. The flight lasted 108 minutes. At the highest point, Gagarin was about 327 kilometers above Earth.
Once in orbit, Yuri Gagarin had no control over his spacecraft. Vostok's reentry was controlled by a computer program sending radio commands to the space capsule. Although the controls were locked, a key had been placed in a sealed envelope in case an emergency situation made it necessary for Gagarin to take control. As was planned, Cosmonaut Gagarin ejected after reentry into Earth's atmosphere and landed by parachute.
First words upon returning to Earth, to a woman and a girl near where his capsule landed (12 April 1961) The woman asked: "Can it be that you have come from outer space?" to which Gagarin replied: "As a matter of fact, I have!"
Colonel Yuri Gagarin died on March 27, 1968 when the MiG-15 he was piloting crashed near Moscow. At the time of his death, Yuri Gagarin was in training for a second space mission.
The triumph of the Soviet space program in putting the first man into space was a great blow to the United States, which had scheduled its first space flight for May 1961. Moreover, Gagarin had orbited Earth, a feat that eluded the U.S. space program until February 1962. By that time, the Soviet Union had already made another leap ahead in the “space race” with the August 1961 flight of cosmonaut Gherman Titov in Vostok 2. Titov made 17 orbits and spent more than 25 hours in space.
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That shitty Alexander Reid Ross piece yesterday has me thinking. There are past/current people in the left sphere who suck, and I don't like people who I do somewhat like cozying up to them, like Matt Christman going on Sean McCarthy's show or whatever. But it really is crazy how this standard is only ever applied to the left? If you say that socialists should try to talk to people who may hold some reactionary views, you're doing a red brown alliance, but when high ranking democrats openly appeal to moderate republicans or accept paternalist imperialist talking points to explode brown people, that's just sensible pragmatic politics.
You must disavow Jimmy Dore for talking to a Boogaloo boy whether or not you've ever liked him, but Nancy Pelosi can vote for Trump's military budget to keep funding bombings in Yemen. You should be glad to have a bunch of neocons who supported every racist Republican for the past thirty years form the Lincoln project and support Joe Biden! If you don't like it, you're doing privileged purity politics.
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I've always found it really weird in general how people gotta cancel lefty personalities for the simple thoughtcrime of talking to reactionaries. There's a difference between platforming and trying to find common ground, and the latter can be useful in some circumstances as a means of de-extremization. Likewise, I think left-wing commentators, personalities, etc, can and should go on right-wing shows and hashing things out as a great means of giving the chuds something else to think about. We often talk about echo chambers, but we get inundated with mainstream right-wing propaganda 24/7 (cultural hegemony, capitalist realism, hypernormalization and all that), which makes right-wing shows the real opportunity to maybe shake the brainworms out and offer another perspective. If it helps convert a few chuds by haing a lefty type pretend to laugh at a reactionary joke or two, then it'll be worth it. There's awful people. Millions of them. None are inherently irredeemable, but just the same they're not gonna stick their necks out without someone giving them a kick.