50th anniversary of human space flight

[vilakins]

It was 50 years ago that Yuri Gagarin was the first human in space--and it's also Greg's birthday (though for him not till tomorrow because he's in the US) which has always pleased him.

Google have a great 50s/Soviet-style logo for the occasion; see it here. The actual Google page shows a rocket blasting off; check it out on your 12th.

Here are "just over 50" (51 in fact) space-related photos which you can vote on if you wish. Many are familiar, others quite unusual and new to me.

And thanks to elmey, here's a 1961 Life photo of Yuri Gagarin's parade in London.

I hope I get this to crosspost to LJ while it's still the 12th.

Comments

[elmey]

Funny you should mention that--we were just discussing it on one of the LJ MFU sites which I can't access anymore right now, and I was going to post this cool photo of Yuri Gagarin's parade in London:

http://images.google.com/hosted/life/f?q=Yuri+Gagarin+source:life&prev=/images%3Fq%3DYuri%2BGagarin%2Bsource:life%26hl%3Den%26newwindow%3D1%26safe%3Doff%26biw%3D1721%26bih%3D886%26tbm%3Disch0,299&imgurl=c0eeb340f0e3203b

[vilakins]

Ooh, that's excellent! May I add it to my post?

[elmey]

Sure. It's 1961 and the source is Life Magazine.

[vilakins]

Thank you!

[elmey]

I'm glad people have a chance to see it. I'm completely shut out of LJ again, I have no idea if it's just a local glitch or what.

[vilakins]

Another Russian DDOS attack, I'd say.