Tag: Mercury program

• Поехали!

  This week marks the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin‘s flight into space – a huge risk for a very brave man: imagine trusting your life to Soviet engineers in such a project! Some years ago I watched a BBC reconstruction of the Vostok 1 flight in which they said that when TASS made its triumphant…

  Adrian McMenamin

  April 10, 2011

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  Mercury program, Soviet Union, space race, TASS, Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union, the right stuff, Vostok 1, Yuri Gagarin