"Like one, that on a lonesome road / Doth walk in fear and dread / And, having once turned round, walks on / And turns no more his head / Because he knows a frightful fiend / Doth close behind him tread" - Coleridge, Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Saturday, April 11, 2009
April 12, 1961
Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel into space, launching to orbit aboard the Vostok 3KA-2
"The Earth is blue. ... How wonderful. It is amazing." —Gagarin, to ground control
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