gagarin

Alan Eustace went into space in a suit, while Gagarin was juat in a ship that went to space.

Here in Germany, everybody knows Gagarin and Armstrong, but nobody knows the names of the other Apollo 11 crewmembers.

It would be interesting to find out the process that Gagarin was chosen as the first man.

With the right definitions someone could say that Yuri Gagarin has this record beat.

I worked in the city of Gagarin (his place of birth) and saw the memorial made after him.

In my naive young western view, Gagarin (and possibly Komarov) would be one of the most likely people to get away with it.

A dog went into space alone before Gagarin did.

> United States, where week starts on Sunday > Yury Gagarin goes to the space Gotta love Russian-flavour English.

Yup, an account of this incident was also published in "Starman" by Jamie Doran and Piers Bizony, published in 1998 -- a biography of Yuri Gagarin.

> According to the authors, Komarov answered: "If I don't make this flight, they'll send the backup pilot instead." That was Yuri Gagarin.

And because Gagarin "did it alone" (ignoring support work such as base camp and mission control) instead of with a partner, his achievement wasn't superceded in any way by the moon landing another 8 years later.

The mission, Gagarin suggested, should be postponed." This helps puts things in perspective when I'm obsessing over trivial things like the max length my RegExp will allow on some arbitrary form field.

It took 53 years to go from Yuri Gagarin's first flight (one orbit) to this suborbital flight test.

It only took 8 / 9 years between Gagarin's flight and landing test pilots on the Moon.

For example the Vostok spacecraft (Gagarin) is still used on orbit 50 years latter for biological experiments.