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The Untold Story of the First Man in Space Yuri Gagarain – Legendary Cosmonaut
Yury Gagarin’s 108-minute orbit around the Earth on April 12, 1961 captured the imagination of the entire world, while setting in motion many national and international projects to reach “the final frontier.”
The stunning achievements of the Soviet space program, which sparked a wave of panic in US academic and political circles, forced Americans to rethink the way they were approaching their studies.
This national navel-gazing, however, had already started before cosmonaut Yury Gagarin arrived on the scene.
Four years before Gagarin’s epic space flight, on October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union had launched Sputnik, the first Earth-orbiting artificial satellite. This successful mission provoked an avalanche of handwringing reports in the US media centered on the single question: “Why is the US educational system failing to keep pace with the Soviets?”
