On April 12, 1961, Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin, became the first human to orbit the Earth. He was born on March 9, 1934 and died on March 27, 1968 while flying a MIG-15 during a routine training flight.
In 1960, Yuri Gagarin was selected with nineteen other cosmonauts for the Soviet Space Program. On the day of the Vostok 1 flight, cosmonaut Gherman Titov was his backup.
NASA dixit:
“A solar prominence began to bow out and the broke apart in a graceful, floating style during a little less than four hours of March 16, 2013. The sequence was captured in extreme ultraviolet light. A large cloud of the particles appeared to hover further out above the surface before it faded away.”
Credit: NASA SDO
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Soyuz TMA-08M docked to the International Space Station six hours after its launch from Baikonur Cosmodrome.
Credit: NASA / Roscosmos
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NASA dixit:
“NASA Flight Engineer Chris Cassidy and his Expedition 35/36 crewmates, Soyuz Commander Pavel Vinogradov, and Russian Flight Engineer Alexander Misurkin are on their way to the International Space Station on Expedition 35/36 after their Soyuz spacecraft lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on March 28, 2013.”
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On March 26, 2013, a Proton-M/Breeze-M launch vehicle placed into orbit the telecommunications satellite SatMex-8. The SatMex spacecraft was designed and built by Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) and will provide services for North, Central, and South America.
Credit: Roscosmos
NASA dixit:
“This movie from the Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) shows comet PanSTARRS as it moved around the sun from March 10-15,2013 (repeated three times). The images were captured by the Heliospheric Imager (HI), an instrument that looks to the side of the sun to watch coronal mass ejections (CMEs) as they travel toward Earth, which is the unmoving bright orb on the right. The bright light on the left comes from the sun and the bursts from the left represent the solar material erupting off the sun in a CME. While it appears from STEREO\’s point of view that the CME passes right by the comet, the two are not lying in the same plane, which scientists know since the comet\’s tail didn\’t move or change in response to the CME\’s passage.”
Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
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