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United state of ancolia | why was my post suppressed? | |
Burgerking | rip | |
Costelberg | Mine Uranium and Iron with me. | |
Sakuraempire | You can have my Uranium OwO | |
People of nolan | *pushes away with stick* Shoo! Get away! | |
Laurenthea | Hey guys! I just posted a flag referendum for my country. Make sure to vote! Savba and Denolia | |
The Union of Denolia | ||
Malevos | I sense the powerful force known as the "UwU". | |
The Union of Denolia | Sulivannia, Kissassia, and Malevos | |
The Federal Republic of Gufand | United state of ancolia and Denolia | |
The Union of Denolia | ||
Cereskia | Kissassia and Denolia | |
The Federal Republic of Gufand | Yeah, corrected it, but thanks lol | |
The Union of Denolia | This may or may not be useful for your work : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coats_of_arms_of_the_Holy_Roman_Empire | |
The Fedəration of My Nation | Heaveria, please see above. :) | |
The Republic of Heaveria | ||
The mikalan empire | ||
People of nolan | Yeah! United state of ancolia and Denolia | |
Costelberg | *Quickly picks G-18* Say goodbye. | |
Obets | I want results dammit | |
The Fedəration of My Nation | Very soon! The Electoral Commission is working on the announcement right now. | |
The Federal Republic of Today in History | 12th April 1961 (60 years ago): Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space On 12 April 1961, aboard the spacecraft Vostok 1, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin becomes the first human being to travel into space. During the flight, the 27-year-old test pilot and industrial technician also became the first man to orbit the planet, a feat accomplished by his space capsule in 89 minutes. Vostok 1 orbited Earth at a maximum altitude of 327 kilometers and was guided entirely by an automatic control system. The only statement attributed to Gagarin during his one hour and 48 minutes in space was, “Flight is proceeding normally; I am well.” The Space Race between the Soviet Union and the United States, the two Cold War superpowers, began just before the Soviet Union launched the world's first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, in 1957. Both countries wanted to develop spaceflight technology quickly, particularly by launching the first successful human spaceflight. The Soviet Union secretly pursued the Vostok programme in competition with the United States' Project Mercury. Vostok launched several precursor uncrewed missions between May 1960 and March 1961, to test and develop the Vostok rocket family and space capsule. These missions had varied degrees of success, but the final two—Korabl-Sputnik 4 and Korabl-Sputnik 5—were complete successes, allowing the first crewed flight. Gagarin parachuted to the ground separately from his capsule after ejecting at 7 km altitude. Both he and the spacecraft landed via parachute 26 km south west of Engels, in the Saratov region. A farmer and her granddaughter, Rita Nurskanova, observed the strange scene of a figure in a bright orange suit with a large white helmet landing near them by parachute. Gagarin later recalled, "When they saw me in my space suit and the parachute dragging alongside as I walked, they started to back away in fear. I told them, don't be afraid, I am a Soviet citizen like you, who has descended from space and I must find a telephone to call Moscow!" After his historic feat was announced, the attractive and unassuming Gagarin became an instant worldwide celebrity. He was awarded the Order of Lenin and given the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. Monuments were raised to him across the Soviet Union and streets renamed in his honor. The triumph of the Soviet space program in putting the first man into space was a great blow to the United States, which had scheduled its first space flight for May 1961. Moreover, Gagarin had orbited Earth, a feat that eluded the U.S. space program until February 1962, when astronaut John Glenn made three orbits in Friendship 7. By that time, the Soviet Union had already made another leap ahead in the “space race” with the August 1961 flight of cosmonaut Gherman Titov in Vostok 2. Titov made 17 orbits and spent more than 25 hours in space. To Soviet propagandists, the Soviet conquest of space was evidence of the supremacy of communism over capitalism. However, to those who worked on the Vostok program and earlier on Sputnik (which launched the first satellite into space in 1957), the successes were attributable chiefly to the brilliance of one man: Sergei Pavlovich Korolev. Because of his controversial past, Chief Designer Korolev was unknown in the West and to all but insiders in the USSR until his death in 1966. Born in the Ukraine in 1906, Korolev was part of a scientific team that launched the first Soviet liquid-fueled rocket in 1933. In 1938, his military sponsor fell prey to Soviet leader Joseph Stalin’s purges, and Korolev and his colleagues were also put on trial. Convicted of treason and sabotage, Korolev was sentenced to 10 years in a labor camp. The Soviet authorities came to fear German rocket advances, however, and after only a year Korolev was put in charge of a prison design bureau and ordered to continue his rocketry work. In 1945, Korolev was sent to Germany to learn about the V-2 rocket, which had been used to devastating effect by the Nazis against the British. The Americans had captured the rocket’s designer, Wernher von Braun, who later became head of the U.S. space program, but the Soviets acquired a fair amount of V-2 resources, including rockets, launch facilities, blueprints, and a few German V-2 technicians. By employing this technology and his own considerable engineering talents, by 1954 Korolev had built a rocket that could carry a five-ton nuclear warhead and in 1957 launched the first intercontinental ballistic missile. That year, Korolev’s plan to launch a satellite into space was approved, and on 4 October 1957, Sputnik 1 was fired into Earth’s orbit. It was the first Soviet victory of the space race, and Korolev, still technically a prisoner, was officially rehabilitated. The Soviet space program under Korolev would go on to numerous space firsts in the late 1950s and early ’60s: first animal in orbit, first large scientific satellite, first man, first woman, first three men, first space walk, first spacecraft to impact the moon, first to orbit the moon, first to impact Venus, and first craft to soft-land on the moon. Throughout this time, Korolev remained anonymous, known only as the “Chief Designer.” His dream of sending cosmonauts to the moon eventually ended in failure, primarily because the Soviet lunar program received just one-tenth the funding allocated to America’s successful Apollo lunar landing program. Korolev died in 1966. Upon his death, his identity was finally revealed to the world, and he was awarded a burial in the Kremlin wall as a hero of the Soviet Union. Yuri Gagarin was killed in a routine jet-aircraft test flight in 1968. His ashes were also placed in the Kremlin wall. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b1/Vostok1.jpg Yuri Gagarin aboard Vostok 1, as televised to launch control. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gagarin-Poyekhali.ogg Yuri Gagarin saying the famous word "Poyekhali!" ("Let's go!") at launch. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b6/Vostok1_big.gif Launch of Vostok 1. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/df/Vostok_spacecraft.jpg Model of the Vostok spacecraft. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6d/Gagarin_Capsule.jpg Vostok I capsule used by Yuri Gagarin. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-man-in-space https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vostok_1 | |
Obets | ||
The United States of Emaha | Here are some of Yuri Gagarin's thoughts: "What beauty. I saw clouds and their light shadows on the distant dear Earth. The water looked like darkish, slightly gleaming spots. When I watched the horizon, I saw the abrupt, contrasting transition from the Earth's light-coloured surface to the absolute black sky. | |
The United States of Emaha | On another note: election results are out! Wohooo! Heaveria, My Nation, Burgerking, Sulivannia, and 2 othersCape adamantis, and Denolia |