... 12.04.1996 . ... Credit: Courtesy MSFC Historical Archive Explanation: Thirty five years ago today, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alexseyevich Gagarin became the first human in space. On April 12, 1961, his remotely controlled Vostok 1 spacecraft lofted him to an altitude of 200 miles and carried him once around planet Earth. ... How was the first view from space ? ... Born on March 9, 1934, Gagarin was an air force jet pilot before being chosen for the first group of cosmonauts in 1960. ... April 1996 . ...

... 2001 April 14 . Man Enters Space . ... Explanation: Forty years ago, on April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alexseyevich Gagarin became the first human in space. ... Gagarin was strictly a passenger on this flight . ... Coupled with other accomplishments , this flight confirmed the early Soviet lead in the space race -- the first US astronaut would not be launched until almost a month later and then on a comparatively short suborbital flight. ... About APOD | ...

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... The first person to orbit the Earth was the Russian Yuri Gagarin, on April 12, 1961. The first American to do so was John Glenn, who completed three orbits on February 20, 1962; more than 26 years later, at age 77, Glenn returned to space aboard the space shuttle. ... Any manned mission faces the problem of safe return to Earth, which requires getting rid of the huge amount of energy associated with orbital motion. A spacecraft in low Earth orbit moves at about 24 times the velocity of sound. ...

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... Galileo Probe . The Galileo spacecraft was designed to study Jupiter's atmosphere, satellites, and surrounding magnetosphere for two years. ... From there, Galileo will spend more than five years traveling to Jupiter, where it will become the first spacecraft to make direct measurements from an instrumented probe within Jupiter's atmosphere. ... This image, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the predicted site at which the Galileo Probe will enter Jupiter's atmosphere on December 7, 1995. ...

Combining SPHERE and ALMA to reveal the properties of planets in transitional discs Maria de Juan Ovelar M. Min, C. Dominik, C. Thalmann, P. Pinilla, M. Benisty and T. Birnstiel Cambridge, 15 th April 2014 Exoplanet uk community meeting Introduction Transitional discs! ... 4 Cambridge, 15th April 2014 Exoplanet uk community meeting sphere + alma "Dust Traps" (Pinilla et al. 2012b)! ... Cambridge, 15th April 2014 Exoplanet uk community meeting 8 de Juan Ovelar et al. 2013! sphere + alma Rp= 20 AU! ...

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