Photo Exhibition "Yuri Gagarin... He was the First"

Photo exhibition "Yuri Gagarin... He was the First" at RCC "Our Texas" was held on March 12, 2011. Our special guests were cosmonauts from Russia, Roman Romanenko and Maksim Surayev, NASA astronauts Chris A. Hadfield and Randy Bresnik.

On April 12, 1961 the first earthling escaped the gravity well of planet earth. In the spaceship Vostok 1, Senior Lieutenant Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin orbited earth one time at an altitude of 187 3/4 miles (302 kilometers) for 108 minutes at 18,000 miles an hour. He was the first man to see that the earth was indeed round, indeed mostly water, and indeed magnificent.

After the flight, Gagarin became a worldwide celebrity, a symbol of the whole epoch triumph of a science, but people still remember him as a charming young man with a magnificent smile which warmed the hearts of millions...

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• Yuri Gagarin
• space
• the first flight into space
• Russian Cultural Center
• exhibition
• photo exhibition educational

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