Monday, April 11, 2011

50th Aniversary of the First Human Spaceflight/google doodle today





Today 12 April 2011  Google logo change again according to the moment  that celebrate by it "50th Aniversary of the First Human Spaceflight.

Yuri Gagarin: First Man in Space

Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space on April 12, 1961 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 cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin (left, on the way to the launch pad) became the first human in space, making a 108-minute orbital flight in his Vostok 1 spacecraft. Newspapers like The Huntsville Times (right) trumpeted Gagarin's accomplishment. 

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