50 Years Ago Yuri's Planet
April 12, 2011
I chose this picture because I think the horizon of the Earth looks spectacular. The clarity and the color of the image add to the awe-inspiring picture. Space really looks like a giant black hole with nothing in it, when compared to the blue Earth. It's hard to believe that it has been 50 years since we've got a man in space; we've come so far. Yuri Gagarin was the first man to be in space, as he embarked from Russia. He orbitted the Earth once and then returned home. The sad thing is that he was killed in a flight practice when his plane crashed. He was give the funeral rights of a hero, and his name will be forever remembered. Vostok-1 was the spacecraft that carried this man up 200 miles and then around the Earth. Twenty years later, the USA would be sending a space shuttle with a team of astronauts. The picture here is from the ISS in 2003. It is just beautiful. I wish that I could go up there for myself and see it.
No comments:
Post a Comment