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Rock-it and roll: Students celebrate the anniversary of first man in space - Russian Yuri Gagarin - Daily Mail | It was the Soviet Union's own giant leap for mankind, one that would spur a humiliated America to race for the moon. So it's no surprise that people in Russia have been out in full force celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first human in space, Yuri Gagarin...

The Family He Left Behind - Air & Space | This month the heirs of Yuri Gagarin will celebrate the 50th anniversary of his flight into orbit. They are his daughters and his widow, his nieces and cousins, his space-going peers, his former rivals, millions of us who knew him only from black-and-white newsreels as the first man in space...

Celebrating 50 Years of Human Spaceflight - The Launch Pad | Tomorrow is April 12. This is a date that most space geeks have committed to memory like it's their mother's birthday -- you just don't forget it. It is a landmark day in the history of human space exploration when Yuri Gagarin exclaimed, "Poehali!" (Let's go!) and became the first man to orbit the earth in 1961...

Legendary rocket propulsion icon Frank Kosdon passes away - Rocketry Planet | VENTURA, California USA — The year is 1961 and a student of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, destined to make an impact on the rocket propulsion industry, is recognized at a luncheon where Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was the guest speaker...

Crews Prep For A Wet 'Thunder Over Louisville' - WLKY | LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Thunder Over Louisville is less than a week away. The air show will feature more than 60 aircraft both civilian and military planes, and the fireworks will feature the latest in pyrotechnic power from Zambelli...

Vipers, Sabre's, & Starfighters, oh my...... - Airline Pilot Forums | Moving things in still pictures...

Operation Unified Protector (was Odyssey Dawn) explained (Day 24) - Cencio 4 | Day 24 saw the quick and quite expected collapse of the African roadmap to halt Libya’s civil war: as representatives from the African Union were in Benghazi to discuss with rebels the plan for peace, including immediate ceasefire...

US naval aviation back on the rise - Flightglobal | Retired Vice Adm Robert Dunn remembers being called to the Secretary of the Navy's office. It was 1989 and the US Navy was still at the peak of its Cold War, 600-ship glory. Defence spending, however, was already in decline and the navy's top civilian, Henry Garrett, had a tough decision to make...

So You Think You Can Fly? Virgin Galactic is Hiring Pilot-Astronauts - MRO Magazine | Virgin Galactic LLC, the world's first commercial spaceline, is accepting qualified applications for pilot-astronauts. Pilot-astronaut responsibilities include the WhiteKnightTwo and SpaceShipTwo spaceflight system test program in accordance with government regulations...

T*C P-47G DX Latest 10-4-2011 - Stick And Rudder | Six pictures...

Sun ‘N Fun Photos - Joe Clark | Top row, the Blue Angels of course.  From left to right, the two solos blowing around the area low and fast, the only way to fly. Center, the diamond breaking up from the south. Right, the six going to separate points on the compass...