Happy Cosmonautic Day!

[Tee Kay]

Three cheers for Yuri Gagarin and Sergei Korolev!

 

[RubricousMidget]

Finally, something worth celebrating !

 

[bhsup]

Indeed, something worth celebrating! Hats off to those brave men and women. But, let us not forget those other brave Cosmonauts, whom I'll honor via a drawing of their most famous representative, Laika.

 

[Swedishguy]

Yeehaw, this reminds me of the Persian New Year!

 

[Kozmos]

For them I am going to drink vodka today!

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

I'll break out the Smirnoff for this one, too!

 

[nc-1701]

I stand in awe of the brave men, and women who boldly went where no man had gone before

 

[RubricousMidget]

And the scientists who got them there.
To the Cosmonauts, Scientists, and especially to Gagarin and Tsiolkovsky . The Soviet Union may have been f-ed up, but their deeds and accomplishments when it comes to space travel stands eternal .

 

[Guangxi]

Yu-ri! Yu-ri! Yu-ri!

 

[Xanikk999]

Poor dog.

He shouldnt have been burdened with the honor and unfortute inevitable death.

Did he die of starvation in the capsule, die on entry in space (no suffiecent gear), or die in reentry?

 

[bhsup]

Poor dog.

He shouldnt have been burdened with the honor and unfortute inevitable death.

Did he die of starvation in the capsule, die on entry in space (no suffiecent gear), or die in reentry?

There was no re-entry. Unless it's degraded in orbit and fallen over the years, Laika is still probably up there. They lost life signs within the first or second day IIRC.

 

[Tee Kay]

Today's the 50th Anniversary of the Flight of the Vostok


Link to video.

 

[azzaman333]

Go Communism!

 

[warpus]

This reminds me of a somewhat offensive Polish joke

Young boy: "Pappa, pappa, the Russians have gone into space!"
Pappa: "What, all of them?"
Boy: "No, just one!"
Pappa: "Who gives a crap then"

 

[Maniacal]

I read the title as "cosmetics". This is a much better day though! RIP to all those who died (some horribly so) in the race for space (and have since and sadly probably will in the future).

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Amazing to believe that Tereshkova is still alive, too!

 

[Supr49er]

Here is an interesting link about the Cosmonauts:
http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4115

There is also a documentary about the Judica-Cordiglia brothers.
http://www.zenit.to.it/eng/prod_doc_pirati_dello_spazio.html

 

[Tee Kay]

Unproven urban legend is unproven urban legend.