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<div class="name_address"><div class="address"></div><div class="address"><span class="bold"></span></div><div style="clear: both;"><br /><br /><div onmousemove="google.doodle.go()" ontouchstart="google.doodle.go()" style="height: 186px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; overflow: hidden; position: relative; width: 524px;" title="50th Anniversary of the First Human Spaceflight"><a href="http://www.google.co.id/logos/2011/firstmaninspace11-hp-js.jpg"><img border="0" src="http://www.google.co.id/logos/2011/firstmaninspace11-hp-js.jpg" style="left: 0pt; position: absolute; top: 0pt;" /></a></div><div id="lga"><script><br />(function(){try{if(!google.doodle)google.doodle={};var a=!0,f;google.doodle.go=function(){a&&(a=!1,f=0,i())};var i=function(){var d=!0,b=document.getElementById("hplogo-c"),c=document.getElementById("hplogo-b"),e=document.getElementById("hplogo-f"),g=document.getElementById("hplogo-d"),h=document.getElementById("hplogo-s");if(b&&c&&e&&g&&h){if(f>16&&f<= 36)c.style.backgroundPosition=-62*Math.floor((f-16)/4)+"px -115px";c=-1;if(f>0&&f<= 10)b.style.display="block",g.style.display="block",c=100*(f-0)/10;f>35&&f<= 45&&(c=100*(45-f)/10);c!=-1&&(j(b,c),j(g,c));if(f>10&&f<= 15)e.style.display="block",j(e,100*(f-10)/5);f>25&&f<= 30&&j(e,100*(30-f)/5);if(f>16)b=Math.pow((f-16)/50,2),e=252+136*b,e>388&&(d=!1),h.style.left=Math.round(e)+"px",h.style.top=Math.round(47+-155*b)+"px";++f;d&&window.setTimeout(i,40)}},j=function(d,b){d.style.filter="alpha(opacity:"+b+")";b=(b< 100?b:99.999)/100;d.style.opacity=b;d.style.MozOpacity=b;d.style.a=b};if(navigator.userAgent.indexOf("MSIE")!=-1)try{document.execCommand("BackgroundImageCache",!1,!0)}catch(k){}}catch(l){google.ml(l,!1,{cause:"DOODLE"})};})();<br /></script></div></div><div style="clear: both;"><br /><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><br /><a href="http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/146084main_yurig_516.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img align="Top" alt="Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space on April 12, 1961" border="0" height="150" src="http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/146084main_yurig_516.jpg" title="Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space on April 12, 1961" width="200" /></a></div>April 12 was already a huge day in space history twenty years before the<br /> launch of the first shuttle mission. On that day in 1961, Russian <br />cosmonaut <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/yuri_gagarin" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=56.04664,39.0265&spn=1.0,1.0&q=56.04664,39.0265%20%28Yuri%20Gagarin%29&t=h" rel="geolocation nofollow" title="Yuri Gagarin">Yuri Gagarin</a> (left, on the way to the launch pad) became the <br />first human in space, making a 108-minute orbital flight in his Vostok 1<br /> spacecraft. Newspapers like The Huntsville Times (right) trumpeted <br />Gagarin's accomplishment. <br /><br /><br />Mercury astronaut <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/alan_shepard" href="http://www.myspace.com/everything/alan-shepard" rel="myspaceeverything nofollow" title="Alan Shepard">Alan Shepard</a> became the first American in space less <br />than a month later. <br /><br /><br />Scientific cooperation with the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/soviet_union" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union" rel="wikipedia nofollow" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a> dates back to the very <br />beginnings of space flight. The <br /><a name="more"></a>first cooperative human space flight <br />project between the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/united_states" href="http://www.lonelyplanet.com/usa?destination_tag_id=361720" rel="lonelyplanet nofollow" title="USA">United States</a> and the Soviet Union took place in <br />1975. The <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/apollo-soyuz_test_project" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=21.8666666667,-162.75&spn=0.01,0.01&q=21.8666666667,-162.75%20%28Apollo%E2%80%93Soyuz%20Test%20Project%29&t=h" rel="geolocation nofollow" title="Apollo–Soyuz Test Project">Apollo-Soyuz Test Project</a> was designed to test the <br />compatibility of rendezvous and docking systems for American and Soviet <br />spacecraft and to open the way for future joint manned flights.<br /><br /><br />Since 1993, the U.S. and Russia have worked together on a number of <br />other space flight projects. The Space Shuttle began visiting the <br />Russian <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/mir" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=-44.25,-150.4&spn=1.0,1.0&q=-44.25,-150.4%20%28Mir%29&t=h" rel="geolocation nofollow" title="Mir">Mir space station</a> in 1994, and in 1995 <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/norman_thagard" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Thagard" rel="wikipedia nofollow" title="Norman Thagard">Norm Thagard</a> became the <br />first U.S. astronaut to take up residency on Mir. Seven U.S. astronauts <br />served with their Russian counterparts aboard the orbiting Mir <br />laboratory from 1995 to 1998. The experience gained from the Mir <br />cooperative effort, as well as lessons learned, paved the way for the <br /><a class="zem_slink freebase/en/international_space_station" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Space_Station" rel="wikipedia nofollow" title="International Space Station">International Space Station</a>.<br /><br /><br />In-orbit construction on the Station began in November 1998, and it has <br />been staffed non-stop with international crews since November 2000. The <br />first Station crew, made up of U.S. commander Bill Shepherd and <br />cosmonauts Yuri Gidzenko and <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/sergei_krikalev" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Krikalev" rel="wikipedia nofollow" title="Sergei Krikalev">Sergei Krikalev</a>, was launched on board a <br />Russian Soyuz spacecraft. The crew returned to Earth on the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/space_shuttle_discovery" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Discovery" rel="wikipedia nofollow" title="Space Shuttle Discovery">Space <br />Shuttle Discovery</a> in March 2001.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.nasa.gov/mpg/146085main_yuri.mpg">+ View Archival <br />Gagarin Video (2 Mb mpeg)</a><br /><br /><br /><div class="space_div"><br /><br /></div><div class="zemanta-pixie"><br /><br /><img alt="" class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=4d851cb5-b2cf-4dcb-8be7-97d25bbd696a" /><span class="zem-script more-related more-info pretty-attribution paragraph-reblog"><script defer="defer" src="http://static.zemanta.com/readside/loader.js" type="text/javascript"><br /></script></span></div>

Yuri Gagarin: First Man in Space

April 12 was already a huge day in space history twenty years before the launch of the first shuttle mission. On that day in 1961, Russian ...