Homages stir on video Yuri Gagarin sung by the Red Russian army choir

April 12, today is the 50th anniversary of the Earth first manned space hero Cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin of the Soviet Union. He was strapped and blasted on board the spaceship Vostok 1, the high Froniter at 9:07 am Moscow time from the Baikonur launch site

Russian Federal Space Agency - the Russian Federal Space Agency - honors his memory with this stirring video tribute chronicles the flight of Yuri Gagarin. The excellent video will set the "Seed" song with lyrics by the Russian Red Army choir Sung. Dramatic video clips show rare look at Gagarin launch events in the training, the actual day and concludes with his grand reception.

Gagarin's smile is contagious and the video brings to live it. Watch and enjoy you - several times. And ready, travel back in time in the time the space race and the Soviet Union.

Below is a different music video with more amazing video clips from the flight of Yuri Gagarin on 12 April 1961and a short video its lifetime to briefly summarise. Gagarin would have celebrated his 75th birthday on 9 March.

People all over the world are today the historic opportunity to over 500 to celebrate Yuri's night events. You can still join in the fun, and. Learn night like on the site of Yuri. Or join Ken in Princeton Junction, New Jersey for an open discussion about Yuri and a further historical space milestone, the 30th anniversary of the first Shuttle flight: STS 1.

And be sure to see the new film first orbit, steaming online, view newly created, seen the Gagarin would have.

Send your "Yuri's night" Ken event report / photos and images of Yuri Gagarin in the universe today release. E-Mail Kremerken at yahoo dot com

Read more about Gagarin in my previous stories:
Yuri Gagarin and Vostok 1 photo album-50th anniversary of human spaceflight
Countdown to Yuri's night and anniversary of human spaceflight!

Roscosmos website
Yuri's night website
Yuri's night party list
Yuri's night party with Ken in Princeton Junction, NJ, United States
First orbit website
STS-1 NASA mission site
Ken Kremer

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"Gagarin" starts to the space station

A Russian Soyuz launch spaceship from the same launch pad of Yuri Gagarin when he was blasted 50 years ago from the cosmodrome Baikonur in Kazakhstan the first man in space, just a week shy of April used 12 anniversary. The launch took place in good time on April 5, 2010 4: 18: 20 pm local time (6: 6:20 pm EDT on April 4.), sending two cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut on the international space station: Soyuz Commander Alexander Samokutyaev, flight engineer Andrey Borisenko and NASA astronaut Ron Garan. The rocket carried the image (see below) and name of Gagarin, to celebrate its historic flight.

Expedition 27 shows Soyuz rollout of the Soyuz with a picture of Yuri Gagarin, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first human in space. Credit (NASA/Carla Cioffi)

Should the crew of the ISS on Wednesday reach.

27 Crew members of the expedition of top, Russian flight engineer Andrey Borisenko, NASA Engineer Ron Garan and Soyuz Commander Alexander Samokutyaev wave farewell to the bottom of the Soyuz rocket before its launch at the international space station from the cosmodrome Baikonur in BaikonurKasachstan on Tuesday, April 5, 2011. photo credit (NASA/Carla Cioffi)

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Shuttle launch delayed; Soyuz "Gagarin" start set for today

The international space station is the left shuttle of the discovery of the station in March 2011. Credit: NASA

Only a bit of a traffic jam on the international space station, a 10-day has prompted delay establishing targeted for space shuttle endeavour 25th and last mission STS-134. Originally planned for April 19, is the shuttle launch now for 3:47 PM EDT on Friday, April 29 planned. The delay removed a conflict in the schedule with a Russian progress supply vehicle to start April 27 and arrive at the station April 29 is planned. Current restrictions allowed a progress to the station dock, while it is not a shuttle service.

Meanwhile, A Russian Soyuz spacecraft with Yuri Gagarin's face and name emblazoned to liftoff today (Monday, 4 April 2011) at 6: 6:20 P.m. EDT (22: 19 GMT) from the cosmodrome Baikonur in Kazakhstan, which brings two cosmonauts and an astronaut on board ISS crew to round off the current Expedition 27, 6 the crew size again. On Board of be astronaut Ron Garan Soyuz Commander Alexander Samokutyaev, flight engineer Andrey Borisenko NASA.

Soyuz launches from the same launch pad used by Yuri Gagarin, when he became the first man in space 12 April 1961 50 years ago. The Russian space agency is devote this launch of spacecraft Soyuz TMA-21 to the anniversary. You can see the start on NASA TV.

NASA Manager be a flight readiness review on Tuesday, 19 April to ensure that everything is keep going for 29 April launch date for STS-134. The primary goals of endeavour's mission to deliver critical and equipment for the international space station, along with a $2 billion Alpha magnetic spectrometer, a particle physics experiment. Four spacewalks are planned required maintenance on complex orbit to perform labor.

The shuttle launch generated already interest - not only because it endeavour's last flight, but also because Commander Mark Kelly is woman, Congressman of Gabriel Giffords, in the hope at the Kennedy Space Center for the liftoff exist. It was shot in January of this year in the head, but has recovered, to visit her husband's final shuttle launch check.

Another item of note: NASASpaceflight.com reported that a Soyuz Flyaround will be considered again, during the space shuttle to the ISS is docked. Such Flyaround had asked for NASA during the previous shuttle mission STS-133, to take pictures - engineering and documentary - the ISS with space ship from each of the partnerships of space agencies available. Japan's HTV-2 has now departed, so will the Flyaround be done during the STS-134 mission spacecraft naturally the family photo would lack, approved.

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