Categories: just-life
Date: 12 April 2011 12:35:37
Fifty years ago today one of the most extraordinary and amazing things of the modern era occurred. Man made his first foray into space when a young Soviet cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, was fired through the atmosphere and into the great unknown...
And I'm going to leave it there, simply because I can't think of enough superlatives to describe the bravery of this man, nor the achievements of the scientists, most of whom are nameless, who managed to successfully not only send Yuri into space but to get him back to Earth in one piece.