Yuri Gagarin first man into space aboard the Vostok 1.
A Soviet pilot and cosmonaut, he dies in 1968 due to an unexpected crash whilst he piloted a MiG 15 training Jet.
Check the Google Doodle for tributes to Yuri...
Perhaps it may come as a surprise but the man responsible for the USSR's complete space race program was a man named Sergei Korolev. He single handedly created the Soviet space program.. his achievements include:
Deputy Chief of the Jet Propulsion Research Institute in 1933
-- The Stalin purges of 1938 saw him thrown into a Siberian GULAG --
-- released in 1944 --
Korolev traveled to Germany in 1945 to inspect, evaluate and restore the A4 Ballistic missile.
He created the first world ballistic missile the R 7.
He developed and created launch platforms, missiles, communication satellites, all with scientific and militaristic capabilities.
The Soyuz Spacecraft was still in use in 2006, 40 years from its original conception date.
Sara Varone standing at 5' 9" tall a Sagittarius aged 38 years old and quite simply stunning. She's well educated having studied Psychology.
