Gagarin thread

[walrus]

http://www.newshawker.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Yuri-Gagarin.jpg

Today is the 50 year anniversary of manned spaceflight!

Well done Soviet!

[EntroX]

paging Razor to this thread.

[spasm]

http://moontag.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/john_glenn_in_his_mercury_pressure_suit_2.jpg

[tasmanian]

In soviet Russia spaceflight mans you!

[walrus]

0wnd

http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/200097main_rs_image_feature_800A_800x600.jpg

NASA pictorial (http://www.nasa.gov/topics/history/features/gagarin/gagarin.html)

There will be a news conference (http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2011/apr/HQ_M11-075_Exped27_News_Conf.html) from ISS at 11.45 am EDT.

[Aurora148]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0109cc7/The_Space_Shuttle_A_Horizon_Guide/

i wept manly tears

the Challenger stuff is still really uncomfortable to watch

[Rans]

Been watching hours and hours of russian docus about this and other russian pilots, savants, etc. Gagarin was/is a hero for any ex-USSR country my grandparents still have memorabilia from that period.

[fffuuu]

http://www.newshawker.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Yuri-Gagarin.jpg

Well done Soviet!

this. the US would never have made it to the moon if we didn't think the Russians were on our heels.

soviet cosmonauts were waaaaaayyyyy more ballsy than their US counterparts. soviet space program was a deathtrap. US astronauts were at least partially certain they wouldn't DIAF.

[Gesadt]

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/04/08/134597833/cosmonaut-crashed-into-earth-crying-in-rage

[mira o'karr]

whats his quote again?

"i dont see shit up here"

shit = god. something like that?

[RazoR]

paging Razor to this thread.wat

[Devec]

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/04/08/134597833/cosmonaut-crashed-into-earth-crying-in-rage

Heavy stuff :(

[Fachiri]

o7

[DracheK]

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/04/08/134597833/cosmonaut-crashed-into-earth-crying-in-rage

Read that and sent it off to all my space loving friends. That poor bastard.

[Kilabi]

http://www.cracked.com/article_19142_5- ... nsane.html (http://www.cracked.com/article_19142_5-soviet-space-programs-that-prove-russia-was-insane.html)

Some heavy stuff about the program.

[walrus]

Thread now about someone else :\

[Xiang Jiao]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0109cc7/The_Space_Shuttle_A_Horizon_Guide/

'Twas getting a "Not available in your area" geo IP cock blocking bullshit message, so I plugged in a UK proxy server address, and now it says "This content doesn't seem to be working. Try again later." Quite ridiculous that I can't watch a documentary that includes the Challenger mission, one of my country's worst space exploration fuckups. I'll be keeping my eye out for a torrent, but I haven't found one yet.

[thegreat lobo]

Currently reading
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51vhDXK7y9L._SL500_AA300_.jpg
Fantastic biography of Yuri Gagarin and the early soviet space program.
Would recommend if you are interested in early space travel.

[Mangala Solaris]

Thanks for the recommendation on that - ordered it off of Amazon (go go Prime trial).

So, 50 years on since this event, and apart from standing on the Moon, sending satellites out of the solar system (good bye to the Voyagers), Hubble, Skylab/Mir/ISS, what have done?

What has made the masses sit up and go OOO? Pop Idol thats what. Nothing has really grabbed their attention, made them sit up and realise the space program is totally worth the costs, the risks and even the lives involved...

I suppose, I'm just space-emo today :)

[Lorkin Desal]

Need to go to Mars already.

[Aurora148]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0109cc7/The_Space_Shuttle_A_Horizon_Guide/

'Twas getting a "Not available in your area" geo IP cock blocking bullshit message, so I plugged in a UK proxy server address, and now it says "This content doesn't seem to be working. Try again later." Quite ridiculous that I can't watch a documentary that includes the Challenger mission, one of my country's worst space exploration fuckups. I'll be keeping my eye out for a torrent, but I haven't found one yet.

expat shield bro

http://www.expatshield.com/

[Quarantine]

What has made the masses sit up and go OOO? Pop Idol thats what. Nothing has really grabbed their attention, made them sit up and realise the space program is totally worth the costs, the risks and even the lives involved...

I suppose, I'm just space-emo today :)

It would probably be easier if there was still a space-race instead of the current uneasy and somewhat inefficient state of cooperation between Ru/EU/US. Maybe in the longterm this will change if the Chinese announce a Mars mission or something like that.

[Diicc Tater]

Every man who's label as a hero, stand on the shoulders or ashes of those who made it possible.
On the other hand, if you were given the choice of death by space shuttle fireball or headshot in some Moscow back alley, you need some balls to take the cool option.

[Warpath]

Every man who's label as a hero, stand on the shoulders or ashes of those who made it possible.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Cosmonauts


Some are undoubtedly hoaxes. But all of them?

[Shinobi Jonin]

The chinese needs to get in on the act yeah,

Although their history if discovery is building a fleet of ships hundreds of years before their time discovering australia and all the surrounding island chains then returning to China and deciding the rest of the world is subpar so why bother :lol:

[Diicc Tater]

Every man who's label as a hero, stand on the shoulders or ashes of those who made it possible.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Cosmonauts


Some are undoubtedly hoaxes. But all of them?


Either way, we now know not to trust any "high-ranking Czech communist". Fucking blabber mouths.

[BadLamb]

Seeing as it's the Gagarin thread I'll just leave this here. Happy 50th space thing.

http://www.myspace.com/video/vid/2015038735

[Xiang Jiao]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0109cc7/The_Space_Shuttle_A_Horizon_Guide/

'Twas getting a "Not available in your area" geo IP cock blocking bullshit message, so I plugged in a UK proxy server address, and now it says "This content doesn't seem to be working. Try again later." Quite ridiculous that I can't watch a documentary that includes the Challenger mission, one of my country's worst space exploration fuckups. I'll be keeping my eye out for a torrent, but I haven't found one yet.

expat shield bro

http://www.expatshield.com/

Thanks, yeah, I had looked into that and saw some threads of people complaining it didn't work and others said it was full of the adware/spyware, so I didn't try it last night. I'll give it a spin on my Guinea Pig box.

[Spaztick]

[quote="diicc tater":8v8oc906]Every man who's label as a hero, stand on the shoulders or ashes of those who made it possible.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Cosmonauts


Some are undoubtedly hoaxes. But all of them?


Either way, we now know not to trust any "high-ranking Czech communist". Fucking blabber mouths.[/quote:8v8oc906]
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[Reed Tiburon]

95% of people don't give a shit about space

harsh truth :(

[Fara]

paging comrade for bitter comments.