‘Poyekhali!’ Remembering Our First Space Voyager (Part 1)
In the early hours of 11 April 1961—more than five decades ago—an enormous booster trundled humanity’s first manned spacecraft to its launch site in a barren region of steppe in Soviet Central Asia. Within its bulbous nose shroud was a ship called Vostok, and it was planned that the following morning the R-7 rocket would … Continue reading ‘Poyekhali!’ Remembering Our First Space Voyager (Part 1) More
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