Itar Tass: World celebrates 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s space flight
OTTAWA, April 11 (Itar-Tass) -- The MacMillan Space Centre in Vancouver has held a gala meeting devoted to an outstanding role played by first world cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin in the history of space exploration. A representative of the MacMillan Space Center, Tracy Cromwell, in an interview with Itar-Tass praised a great role played by Gagarin’s space mission. The gala event was organized to pay tribute to Yuri Gagarin and his contribution to the history of manned space flights, Cromwell said.
On the eve of the 50th jubilee of the first manned space flight special events devoted to the historic anniversary were held in Canada, including at the Canadian parliament in Ottawa, a conference of writers of science fiction in Toronto, museums in Calgary, Edmonton and Winnipeg, the Astronomical Observatory in Alberta and the University of Western Ontario.
ROME - Special events timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's space flight are beginning at the Sapienza University of Rome on Monday. The main gala events attended by Russian and Italian cosmonauts will be held at the University of Insubria in Varese (Milan) on April 12, where a scientific conference devoted to the present, past and future of manned space flights will be held. Russian cosmonaut Yuri Usachev, who had been to space four times including a space mission to the Mir orbital station and the International Space Station, will take part in the conference. A documentary film devoted to Yuri Gagarin will be demonstrated for the first time at Milan Planetarium.
The Leonardo da Vinci National Museum of Science and Technology organized a meeting with Russian cosmonaut Valery Tokarev, who took part in two international space expeditions to the Mir orbital station and the International Space Station, and US astronaut Walter Cunningham who was the Lunar module pilot in the 1968 Apollo mission. Italian astronaut Maurizio Cheli who took part in the Columbia shuttle expedition in 1975 is to join his Russian and US colleagues.
TBILISI - An exhibition "The Way to the Stars" devoted to the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s space flight was held at the Russian Drama Theatre in Tbilisi on Sunday. On display were paintings created by talented children who took part in the Georgian national competition of children’s drawings organized by the “Russian Club” international cultural organization.
More than 250 young artists from Georgia aged from 4 to 17 took part in the competition at which 600 drawings were displayed. The winners - the nine-year-old Luka Gotua from Tbilisi and the 16-year-old Georgy Kopadze from Rustavi, were awarded a free sightseeing tour to Russia which includes historical cities on Russia's "Golden Ring" tourist itinerary.
Senin, 11 April 2011
Minggu, 10 April 2011
Yuri's Night on April 12th marks 2 Big Landmarks in Space Exploration
Yuri's Night is celebrated over the world tomorrow. Human Spaceflight became a reality 50 years ago with the launch of “Vostok 1” on April 12th, 1961, carrying Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, who took his place in history as the first human to enter outer space.
Exactly 20 years later, the United States embarked on a new era in spaceflight with the Space Shuttle (April 12th, 1981) launch. Designed to carry a larger crew and large volumes of cargo to orbit, the Space Shuttles became synonymous with human spaceflight for an entirely new generation of young people.
When the next 20-year point arrived, that generation (often called “Gen X”) laid a new space milestone by connecting thousands of people around the world to celebrate and honor the past, while building a stairway to the future. That event was Yuri’s Night, and it continues to bring the excitement, passion and promise of space travel closer to people of all ages, nationalities and backgrounds.
Exactly 20 years later, the United States embarked on a new era in spaceflight with the Space Shuttle (April 12th, 1981) launch. Designed to carry a larger crew and large volumes of cargo to orbit, the Space Shuttles became synonymous with human spaceflight for an entirely new generation of young people.
When the next 20-year point arrived, that generation (often called “Gen X”) laid a new space milestone by connecting thousands of people around the world to celebrate and honor the past, while building a stairway to the future. That event was Yuri’s Night, and it continues to bring the excitement, passion and promise of space travel closer to people of all ages, nationalities and backgrounds.
www.yurisnight.netJumat, 08 April 2011
Key dates in the history of space exploration
Space Travel.com: Key dates in the history of space exploration
Following are key dates in the history of space travel and exploration, 50 years after Soviet cosmonaut Yury Gagarin became the first man in space:
1957
October: USSR launches first satellite Sputnik 1.
November 3: Russian dog Laika becomes first live animal in space but dies aboard Sputnik 2.
1958
October: American space agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) created.
1961
April: Gagarin becomes first man in space, completing a single, 108-minute orbit aboard Vostok 1.
May: US President John Kennedy launches the Apollo programme which foresees a man on the moon by the end of the decade. American Alan Shepard carries out a 15-minute space flight aboard Mercury.
1962
February: American John Glenn completes the first three orbits of the Earth.
August: US launches a probe to Venus, USSR fires a probe to Mars in November.
1963
June: First space flight by a woman, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova.
1965
March: Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov undertakes first spacewalk during a 26-hour flight.
1967
January: Launchpad blaze kills all three astronauts aboard Apollo 1. Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov killed when Soyuz 1 parachute fails in April.
1969
July: US astronauts Neil Armstrong, then Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin (Apollo 11) become first men to set foot on the Moon.
1971
April: USSR launches first orbital space station, Salyut 1.
June: Three cosmonauts on Soyuz 11 die during descent of their module.
1975
May: European Space Agency created.
July: A US Apollo spacecraft docks with a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft while in Earth orbit.
1979
December: Europe becomes a space power with the launch of the Ariane rocket.
1981
April: Maiden voyage of the US space shuttle Columbia, the first reusable manned spacecraft. It is followed later by Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour.
1986
January: Challenger explodes on liftoff, killing all seven astronauts.
1990
April: Launch of of the Hubble Space Telescope, a joint venture between NASA and the European Space Agency.
1998
November: Start of the contruction of the International Space Station (ISS), which is inhabited in late 2000.
2001
April: US millionaire Dennis Tito becomes the world's first space tourist.
2003
February: Shuttle Columbia disintegrates over Texas upon reentry killing seven astronaunts.
October: China launches the Chang'e I satellite, the nation's first lunar orbiter. In September 2008 Chinese astronaut Zhai Zhigang aboard the Shenzhou VII successfully completes his country's first ever space walk.
2004
September: British airline magnate Richard Branson announces a plan for the world's first commercial space flights.
2008
October: India's first lunar mission blasts off from the national space centre on the southeastern coast.
2009
February: Iran launches its first domestically manufactured satellite into orbit. A year later it sends animals into space.
2010
February: US President Barack Obama scraps plans to return Americans to the moon and to conquer Mars.
2011
February: Shuttle Discovery lands back on Earth after its final space flight before retirement. After the last journeys of Endeavour and Atlantis, the US will depend totally on Russia's Soyuz to go to space.
Following are key dates in the history of space travel and exploration, 50 years after Soviet cosmonaut Yury Gagarin became the first man in space:
1957
October: USSR launches first satellite Sputnik 1.
November 3: Russian dog Laika becomes first live animal in space but dies aboard Sputnik 2.
1958
October: American space agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) created.
1961
April: Gagarin becomes first man in space, completing a single, 108-minute orbit aboard Vostok 1.
May: US President John Kennedy launches the Apollo programme which foresees a man on the moon by the end of the decade. American Alan Shepard carries out a 15-minute space flight aboard Mercury.
1962
February: American John Glenn completes the first three orbits of the Earth.
August: US launches a probe to Venus, USSR fires a probe to Mars in November.
1963
June: First space flight by a woman, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova.
1965
March: Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov undertakes first spacewalk during a 26-hour flight.
1967
January: Launchpad blaze kills all three astronauts aboard Apollo 1. Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov killed when Soyuz 1 parachute fails in April.
1969
July: US astronauts Neil Armstrong, then Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin (Apollo 11) become first men to set foot on the Moon.
1971
April: USSR launches first orbital space station, Salyut 1.
June: Three cosmonauts on Soyuz 11 die during descent of their module.
1975
May: European Space Agency created.
July: A US Apollo spacecraft docks with a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft while in Earth orbit.
1979
December: Europe becomes a space power with the launch of the Ariane rocket.
1981
April: Maiden voyage of the US space shuttle Columbia, the first reusable manned spacecraft. It is followed later by Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour.
1986
January: Challenger explodes on liftoff, killing all seven astronauts.
1990
April: Launch of of the Hubble Space Telescope, a joint venture between NASA and the European Space Agency.
1998
November: Start of the contruction of the International Space Station (ISS), which is inhabited in late 2000.
2001
April: US millionaire Dennis Tito becomes the world's first space tourist.
2003
February: Shuttle Columbia disintegrates over Texas upon reentry killing seven astronaunts.
October: China launches the Chang'e I satellite, the nation's first lunar orbiter. In September 2008 Chinese astronaut Zhai Zhigang aboard the Shenzhou VII successfully completes his country's first ever space walk.
2004
September: British airline magnate Richard Branson announces a plan for the world's first commercial space flights.
2008
October: India's first lunar mission blasts off from the national space centre on the southeastern coast.
2009
February: Iran launches its first domestically manufactured satellite into orbit. A year later it sends animals into space.
2010
February: US President Barack Obama scraps plans to return Americans to the moon and to conquer Mars.
2011
February: Shuttle Discovery lands back on Earth after its final space flight before retirement. After the last journeys of Endeavour and Atlantis, the US will depend totally on Russia's Soyuz to go to space.
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