Today would have been Yuriy Gagarin's 70th birthday.

Today would have been Yuriy Gagarin's 70th birthday.

He didn't build his rocket, or fund it, or fuel it -- but he got into it,
knowing enough about what there was to be afraid of.

And after he came back, those fears were never so worrisome for everybody
else.

He was the first man in orbit -- and the first man to realize it wasn't
something to be frightened of.

Here's my 1991 essay on my own assessment of his role in history.

http://www.astronautix.com/articles/celrsary.htm

Jim O
www.jamesoberg.com

On Mon, 08 Mar 2004 21:42:38 GMT, "JimO"
wrote:

Today would have been Yuriy Gagarin's 70th birthday.

He didn't build his rocket, or fund it, or fuel it -- but he got into it,
knowing enough about what there was to be afraid of.

And after he came back, those fears were never so worrisome for everybody
else.

He was the first man in orbit -- and the first man to realize it wasn't
something to be frightened of.

Here's my 1991 essay on my own assessment of his role in history.

http://www.astronautix.com/articles/celrsary.htm

Neat. And isn't it ironic, that both the US and USSR behaved the same
way by keeping Glenn and Gagarin on the ground from then on......

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On Mon, 08 Mar 2004 23:15:55 GMT, Wally Anglesea™
wrote:

On Mon, 08 Mar 2004 21:42:38 GMT, "JimO"
wrote:

Today would have been Yuriy Gagarin's 70th birthday.

He didn't build his rocket, or fund it, or fuel it -- but he got into it,
knowing enough about what there was to be afraid of.

And after he came back, those fears were never so worrisome for everybody
else.

He was the first man in orbit -- and the first man to realize it wasn't
something to be frightened of.

Here's my 1991 essay on my own assessment of his role in history.

http://www.astronautix.com/articles/celrsary.htm

Neat. And isn't it ironic, that both the US and USSR behaved the same
way by keeping Glenn and Gagarin on the ground from then on......

Nah, Glenn flew just a few years ago.

On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 00:04:43 GMT, Mister Fixit wrote:

On Mon, 08 Mar 2004 23:15:55 GMT, Wally Anglesea™
wrote:

On Mon, 08 Mar 2004 21:42:38 GMT, "JimO"
wrote:

Today would have been Yuriy Gagarin's 70th birthday.

He didn't build his rocket, or fund it, or fuel it -- but he got into it,
knowing enough about what there was to be afraid of.

And after he came back, those fears were never so worrisome for everybody
else.

He was the first man in orbit -- and the first man to realize it wasn't
something to be frightened of.

Here's my 1991 essay on my own assessment of his role in history.

http://www.astronautix.com/articles/celrsary.htm

Neat. And isn't it ironic, that both the US and USSR behaved the same
way by keeping Glenn and Gagarin on the ground from then on......

Nah, Glenn flew just a few years ago.

Acknowledged, but it was a conscious decision to keep him grounded. He
got to fly because he lived long enough to lobby for it.

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Wally Anglesea™ wrote:
Neat. And isn't it ironic, that both the US and USSR behaved the same
way by keeping Glenn and Gagarin on the ground from then on......

Not really. Glenn's grounding almost certainly would have been lifted
soon enough if he'd stayed around; Shepard eventually walked on the Moon,
after all. Glenn played up his grounding during his campaign for a
passenger seat on the shuttle, but really, the main reason he never got
another flight assignment was simply that he became ineligible when he
left the astronaut corps.

Save your sympathy for Gagarin, who really was pretty thoroughly grounded.
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(BTW -I believe the announcer mis-states Gagarin's age at the time of the
flying accident...or it's date....doesn't add up anyway.)

"Wally Anglesea™" wrote:

Neat. And isn't it ironic, that both the US and USSR behaved the same
way by keeping Glenn and Gagarin on the ground from then on......

Why was Gagarin grounded?

On Tue, 9 Mar 2004 06:20:37 -0600, "Kent Betts"
wrote:

Voice of Russia audio tribute - 220k wav file gar70aud.wav

http://www.geocities.com/kent_betts2000/p28.html

(BTW -I believe the announcer mis-states Gagarin's age at the time of the
flying accident...or it's date....doesn't add up anyway.)

They got the date right- March 27th, 1968, but he would have been 34,
not 38 as stated in the report.

Thanks for the .wav!

Dale

"Richard Schumacher"
Why was Gagarin grounded?

The possibility of the loss of Gagarin on a subsequent flight was considered
too great a propaganda liability.

On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, JimO wrote:

Today would have been Yuriy Gagarin's 70th birthday.

And next Sunday, 14 March, would have been Albert Einstein's 125th birthday.

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