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Hard Times
On 12 April, 1961, Baikonur Cosmodrome in what is now Kazakhstan picked up a transmission that changed human history.
“I can see the clouds. I can see everything.
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It’s beautiful!” Spoken in a youthful Russian voice, those words came from a place no human had ever gone before. Sat 327 km above the surface of the Earth, Yuri Gagarin had just become the first man to ever visit space. Outside his window, our planet hung brilliant blue against the cold darkness of the universe.
Thanks to this one Russian pilot, mankind would now have a whole new frontier to explore; a frontier we’re still trying to tame six decades later.
Today, the name Yuri Gagarin remains world famous, up there right beside Neil Armstrong in terms of amazing firsts.
Gagarin yuri biography
But who really was this Soviet spaceman, and how did he come to be sitting in that capsule? Born into a poor peasant family on the eve of WWII, Gagarin could’ve easily never amounted to much. But thanks to the sheer force of his talent, he w