Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space (x)

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Yuri Gagarin right after the flight

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astrohardware:

I uh

“Leonov sketches Belyayev during a postflight vacation on a Black Sea beach.”

okay?

(seriously, though, Alexei is a very good artist, and it is cool that he’s drawing his buddy. But…those hats?)

Yuri thinks they’re cool:

jtotheizzoe:

Did you see those amazing colorized portraits of Tesla, Einstein and Darwin the other day? Here’s a few more, featuring a more light-hearted shot of Al, my main man Richard Feynman, and Yuri Gagarin.

Mads Madsen, the artist behind those retouched historical photos (who is only 18 years old, by the way … you rock, dude), has a full gallery for your enjoyment here.

Trust me when I say “enter at your own risk” … from Civil War generals to presidents to movie stars, it’s a sure way to lose yourself for an hour or three.

lightthiscandle:

British sculptor Richard Beach works on his clay bust of Yuri Gagarin, 5/26/61.

enigmaland:

Yuri Gagarin in front of the Sphinx in Egypt

yuri-alekseyevich-gagarin:

Yuri Gagarin in Poland, 1961.

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Cosmonauts learning how to take pictures in space. Gherman Titov was the first to manually take pictures from orbit on his Vostok 2 flight in August 1961.

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Pavel Popovich, Yuri Gagarin, Valentina Tereshkova, Valery Bykovsky, Andriyan Nikolayev and Gherman Titov at a TV studio (1963)

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Another photo from the same session as this one. Vladimir Komarov helped Yevgeni Khrunov on the left and Yuri Gagarin assists Alexei Yeliseyev on the right. I’ve found out that this is from training of the planned Soyuz 1 and 2 missions. Soyuz 1 would dock to Soyuz 2 with Khrunov and Yeliseyev transferring from 2 to 1. However the flight of Soyuz 2 was cancelled when Soyuz 1 went so badly. Gagarin was Komarov’s backup. Khrunov and Yeliseyev eventually made a transfer in 1969 on the Soyuz 4 and 5 mission.

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When Soyuz TMA-05M landed this past week, a landing marker was put in, which I had never seen before. So I did a bit of investigating. I wasn’t able to find many like the Soyuz TMA-05M one, most of the markers are permanent statues.

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yuri-alekseyevich-gagarin:

Yuri Gagarin in space, 12 April 1961

Yuri Gagarin and Gherman Titov at an event celebrating the latter’s Vostok-2 flight. Andriyan Nikolayev is on the very left, who would fly Vostok-3 next year. (1961)

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Yuri Gagarin and friends.

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yuri-alekseyevich-gagarin:

Yuri Gagarin’s beginning of the road to the stars