Essays Tagged: "Yuri Gagarin"
The Race to the Moon.
a man into space, but once again the Soviets beat them to it. On the 12th of April 1961, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was launched from the space center at Tyuratam inVostok 1. He completed one orbit of th ... d send a manned craft around the moon by late 1968. There was a good chance that the pilot would be Yuri Gagarin, but he was killed in a plane crash early in the year.While the first steps of the Amer ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Space
The History of Flight
ial satellite.Jan. 31, 1958: The U.S. launches Explorer I, the first U.S. satellite.April 12, 1961: Yuri Gagarin of the Soviet Union becomes the first man in space and the first person to orbit Earth. ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Engineering > Mechanical Engineering
Do the achievements of the Soviet state, 1945-65, demonstrate the effectiveness of a centrally planned economy?
y year period, perhaps the most well known is their victory in the race to put a man in space. When Yuri Gagarin orbited the earth April 12th 1961 , the event heavily added to claims that the USSR was ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History
The Cold War Affects To The Space Race
into space. USSR continued its lead in space exploration with the first person in space, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin who orbited earth in Vostok 1, April 12, 1961. When U.S.S.R. succeeded on putting the f ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History
The Sunset
Subjects: Science Essays > Astronomy