Tag: space

united-nations: Flashback Friday to 1963 when Soviet cosmonauts Yuri Gagarin and Valentina Tereshkova visited United Nations Headquarters in NYC, two years after Yuri Gagarin was the first human being to make a space flight. Friday’s Human Space Flight Day celebrates the beginning of the space era for mankind. Today, space science and technology contribute to achieving the Global Goals and help maintain outer space for peaceful purposes. 📷: UN Photo I have two recommendations related to this topic. The first is a great book. I recently read If the Sun Dies by Oriana Fallaci, a report novel about the hopeful…

Happy Sunday, everybody! I know, another week passed without any posts, it is not intentional, I am working on it. My work problem is about to be settled in the coming weeks (one way or another), and then I will hopefully be able to concentrate on creative stuff. At one point, I should probably write a post about it all, but it involves other people, so I will have to figure out some unharmful way to share it. Now let’s see what happened in the world this week. Syria: Starvation as a Tactic of War and A Syrian Response to Obama’s…

Leo: We spent millions of dollars developing a pen that could write in space. Do you know what the Russians did? Josh: Used a pencil? Leo: Used a pencil.

Today is the International Day of Human Space Flight 12 April 1961 was the date of the first human space flight, carried out by Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet citizen.