Today, is the 50th year of Russia's Cosmonauts Day or Yuri's Night, internationally. After all, it is 50 years since the first ever human to enter space. In effect, validating that humans need not be confined to the pale blue dot floating in space, but they can potentially fly out into the cosmic oceans themselves to explore. When I was a kid, I was really enamored with space travel and astronauts. If anything, I was more in the U.S. Apollo program during the space race in the Cold War. Still, I couldn't help but admire the human achievement of actually being the first person to enter space. Sure, it was born out of some petty rivalry between the Soviet Union and the U.S., between who's got the best defence: military and technological advancements. But so long as it potentially helps humanity at large, that's good enough for me. So, who exactly was Yuri Gagarin? I mean, really?
Yuri Alekseyich Gargarin was born on 9 March 1934 to Alexey Ivanovich Gargarin and Anna Timofeyna Gargarina. While his mother was a voracious reader, his father was a carpenter. And the family spent time working in one of hundreds of the collective farms in the Soviet Union. When World War II came about, like millions of Soviet citizens,
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