The final task carried out by Armstrong was to leave behind a package of memorial items in remembrance of deceased Soviet cosmonautsYuri Gagarinand Vladimir Komarov, andApollo 1astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee. All told, Armstrong and Aldrin spent 2.5 hours on the lunar surface...
Yuri Gagarin, Soviet cosmonaut who on April 12, 1961, became the first man to travel into space. His Vostok 1 spacecraft orbited Earth once in 1 hour 29 minutes at a maximum altitude of 187 miles, bringing Gagarin immediate worldwide fame. Learn more abo
Gagarin, Yuri - (1934-1968), Soviet cosmonaut Gage, Thomas - British General in American Revolution Gagnan, Emile - underwater apparatus Gagnon, Marc - (born 1975), Olympic Gold medalist Gahagan, Helen - (1900-1980) US actress, politician Gahan, David - (born 1962), musician (Dep...
March 30, 1961: American test pilot Joe Walker reaches an altitude of 169,600 feet in an X-15 rocket plane. April 12, 1961: Yuri Gagarin of the Soviet Union becomes the first human to orbit Earth. April 12, 1981: The Columbia space shuttle becomes the first winged vehicle in orbit...
Overseen byYuri Gagarin(the first man in space) the selection process for female cosmonauts began in mid-1961. Since there weren't many female pilots in the Soviet air force, women parachutists were considered as a possible field of candidates. Tereshkova, along with three other women parachutis...
Launching from the same launchpad that Yuri Gagarin had launched from fifty years prior, Ron was a fully integrated member of a Russian spacecraft crew for a six month mission aboard the ISS. As the US segment lead aboard the space station, he hosted the last two space shuttle missions and...
Followinghis first space flight he served as NASA Director of Operations at the Yuri GagarinCosmonaut TrainingCenter, Star City, Russia.After his second mission, he led the newly formed ISS Crew Operations branch ofthe Astronaut Office. Uponcompletion of his third spaceflight, he was assigned as ...
River Falls. Honorary Doctor of Engineering, Milwaukee School of Engineering, Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Wisconsin - River Falls. Recipient of the SETP Iven C. Kincheloe Award, the AIAA Haley Space Flight Award, the Federation Aeronautique International Yuri Gagarin Gold Medal and Am...
Yuri Gagarin, Soviet cosmonaut who on April 12, 1961, became the first man to travel into space. His Vostok 1 spacecraft orbited Earth once in 1 hour 29 minutes at a maximum altitude of 187 miles, bringing Gagarin immediate worldwide fame. Learn more abo
Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in 1957 used the fact that his country had been first to launch a satellite as evidence of the technological power of the Soviet Union and of the superiority of communism. He repeated these claims after Yuri Gagarin’s orbital flight in 1961. Although U.S. Pre...