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Alyona Nikolayeva, Valery Bykovsky and Tatiana Titova, children of cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova and Andrian Nikolayev, Valery Bykovsky and Gherman Titov. Photo: Alexander Mokletsov

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Events 8.11 (after 1940)

1934 – The first civilian prisoners arrive at the Federal prison on Alcatraz Island. 1942 – Actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil receive a patent for a Frequency-hopping spread spectrum communication system that later became the basis for modern technologies in wireless telephones, two-way radio communications, and Wi-Fi. 1945 – Poles in Kraków engage in a pogrom against Jews in the city, killing one and wounding five. 1952 – Hussein bin Talal is proclaimed King of Jordan. 1959 – Sheremetyevo International Airport, the second-largest airport in Russia, opens. 1960 – Chad declares independence from France. 1961 – The former Portuguese territories in India of Dadra and Nagar Haveli are merged to create the Union Territory Dadra and Nagar Haveli. 1962 – Vostok 3 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev becomes the first person to float in microgravity. 1965 – Race riots (the Watts Riots) begin in the Watts area of Los Angeles, California. 1969 – The Apollo 11 astronauts are released from a three-week quarantine following their liftoff from the Moon. 1972 – Vietnam War: The last United States ground combat unit leaves South Vietnam. 1975 – East Timor: Governor Mário Lemos Pires of Portuguese Timor abandons the capital Dili, following a coup by the Timorese Democratic Union (UDT) and the outbreak of civil war between UDT and Fretilin. 1979 – Two Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-134s collide over the Ukrainian city of Dniprodzerzhynsk and crash, killing all 178 aboard both airliners. 1982 – A bomb explodes on Pan Am Flight 830, en route from Tokyo, Japan to Honolulu, Hawaii, killing one passenger and injuring 15 others. 1984 – "We begin bombing in five minutes": United States President Ronald Reagan, while running for re-election, jokes while preparing to make his weekly Saturday address on National Public Radio. 1988 – A meeting between Sayyed Imam Al-Sharif, Osama bin Laden, Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, and leaders of Egyptian Islamic Jihad in Afghanistan culminates in the formation of Al-Qaeda. 1991 – Nickelodeon's first line of “Nicktoons” (Doug, Rugrats & Ren & Stimpy) premiere on the channel. 1992 – The Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota opens. At the time the largest shopping mall in the United States. 2000 – An air rage incident occurs on board Southwest Airlines Flight 1763 when 19-year-old Jonathan Burton attempts to storm the cockpit, but he is subdued by other passengers and dies from his injuries. 2003 – NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history. 2003 – Jemaah Islamiyah leader Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, is arrested in Bangkok, Thailand. 2006 – The oil tanker MT Solar 1 sinks off the coast of Guimaras and Negros Islands in the Philippines, causing the country's worst oil spill. 2012 – At least 306 people are killed and 3,000 others injured in a pair of earthquakes near Tabriz, Iran. 2017 – At least 41 people are killed and another 179 injured after two passenger trains collide in Alexandria, Egypt. 2023 – Luna 25 launches from the Vostochny Cosmodrome.

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Cosmonauts Yuri Gagarin and Andrian Nikolayev, 1960s

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THE FIRST WOMAN IN SPACE: VALENTINA TERESHKOVA Tereshkova became the first woman in space aboard Vostok 6. She was born on March 6, 1937 and raised in Maslennikovo, a small town in the Yaroslavl Region. Her family included a younger brother and an elder sister; her father was a tractor driver who was declared missing in action in the Finno-Russian War of 1939-1940. Her mother raised the three children on her own whilst also working in a textile plant.

Tereshkova did not start school until she was eight, once the war was over. At the age of 17 she had to leave school so she could start working at the textile factory, to help support her family. She continued her education via correspondence course and learned to sky dive through the DOSAAF Aviation Club in Yaroslavl, an auxiliary organization of the Soviet Air Force. Tereshkova’s first sky dive was on 21 May 1959 and afterwards she set up the Textile Mill Workers Parachute Club and became its first head. Two years after that, she became secretary of her local Komsomol (Young Communist League) and earned certification as a cotton-spinning technology expert. A month after she turned 24, in April 1961, Yuri Gagarin officially became the first man in space when the Soviet Union launched the Vostok-1 spacecraft (http://on.fb.me/WtbCqM). Kamanin, the cosmonaut chief, believed it was the patriotic duty of the Soviet Union to beat the Americans to put a woman in space. He went to the Soviet Air Force and Chief Designer Korolev straight after Gagarin’s flight, proposing they find a female cosmonaut who would also be a dedicated Communist. With Korolev’s agreement, in October 1961 Kamanin ensured five women were among the 50 new cosmonauts recruited. Piloting was not a requirement for the recruits, as the Vostok was completely automated. Parachuting experience was essential however, as the cosmonaut within the Vostok would be ejected from the capsule after re-entry and would land on the Earth’s surface using a personal parachute. The qualifications were: females under 30 years of age; under 170 cm tall; under 70 kg in weight; physically fit; ideologically pure; who had completed parachute training of at least five to six months duration. Kamanin was one of the founders of DOSAAF so searched for girls matching his criteria among the Soviet Union’s aero clubs. There were 58 potential candidates within the DOSAAF and 40 of these passed the paper review and were sent to Moscow for interviews and physical examinations in January 1962. Tereshkova met all the requirements; though the fact that her father was missing in action rather than killed in action raised the possibility, though remote, that he had deserted or fled. As she was a Komsomol leader this hurdle was overlooked and she became one of five women selected as cosmonaut-candidates on 16 February 1962. Of the five, she was the least qualified and held no higher education; the others were test pilots, world-class parachutists, and engineers. The five women underwent training including weightless flights, parachute jumps, isolation tests and centrifuge tests. Kamanin considered Tereshkova, Solovyova and Kuznetsova to be the leading candidates for the first female flight to space. Tereshkova was very strong in the physical training, but struggled more than the others with rocket theory and spacecraft engineering. The training next included 120 parachute jumps as well as pilot training in MiG-15UTI jet trainers. All women were commissioned as lieutenants in the Soviet Air Force; Tereshkova also became a full member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. In May 1962 cosmonaut Gherman Titov and Kamanin joined a Soviet delegation to Washington. They went to a barbecue at the home of astronaut John Glenn, who led them to believe that the first American woman would make a three-orbit Mercury flight by the end of 1962. Kamanin managed to convince Soviet authorities that America may beat them to get the first woman into space, so the decision was made to approve the first flight of a Soviet woman within weeks of the delegates’ return to the Soviet Union. In August of that year the Soviets also achieved the first dual manned spaceflight, when Vostok 3 and 4 orbited in space together, each carrying a cosmonaut. Kamanin proposed that Vostok 5 and 6 should orbit two women in space together; this was the official plan for 1963. Selection for the flights took place on 19 November 1962; it was between Tereshkova and Ponomaryova. While Ponomaryova had the best test results, she did not tow the party line as well as Tereshkova did; when asked 'what do you want from life?' Tereshkova replied 'I want to support irrevocably the Komsomol and Communist Party' whereas Ponomaryova said 'I want to take everything it can offer'. Ponomaryova also maintained that a woman could smoke and still be a decent person, and had gone unescorted into the town of Fedosiya while there for parachute training (a scandal). The plan for a dual female flight was approved right until the last moment, when party ideologue Kozlov and Ministry of Defense Chief Ustinov quashed the idea on 21 March 1963. For propaganda purposes, only one female would fly. There would be a dual flight, but the other cosmonaut was to be a male: Bykovsky. This last minute training for Bykovsky delayed the dual flights for two months. Because Tereshkova was less qualified than Ponomaryova, she was chosen for the mission. Korolev planned a more complex mission for two women, which would involve space piloting skills and a spacewalk. Korolev planned to use Ponomaryova and Solovyova for the more complex mission, so Tereshkova was chosen for the ‘easier’ mission as she was the least skilled of the three potential cosmonauts. It was Premier Khrushchev who ultimately made the final crew selection however; Tereshkova was chosen as she was seen as a reliable communist, a factory worker from a humble background, and a 'good' girl. Kamanin later referred to her as 'Gagarin in a skirt'. Vostok 5 was launched June 14, 1963 with Bykovsky aboard. Two days later Tereshkova became the first woman in space aboard Vostok 6; she had the call sign 'Chaika' (Seagull). Kamanin, Korolev, and Mishin published their memoirs after the fall of the Soviet Union, discussing the problems of the flight. Korolev and Mishin both blamed Tereshkova for ‘psychological instability’. Kamanin claimed they exaggerated her difficulties during the flight and that she only had tasks assigned for the first day. When the flight was extended for a second, and then a third day, she had little to do and the ground command offered little support. Tereshkova did not release her version of events until 2007. She claimed the automatic orientation system of her Vostok capsule was incorrectly set up and that her capsule was oriented 90 degrees from the intended direction on orbit insertion. If retrofire was initiated, this would have sent her to her death in a higher orbit, rather than braked for a return to the Earth's atmosphere. It took a day for the ground crew to verify this and rectify the problem. She did vomit in space, and Korolev wanted to bring her down early because of this. She claimed it was due to the food, and not space-sickness. To combat her ‘space-sickness’, she was ordered to stay strapped to her seat and she developed a cramp in her right shin on the third day. She also developed a sore pressure point where her helmet’s ring pressed on her shoulder. Once ejected from the capsule, Tereshkova nearly ended up in a splashdown in a large lake before a high wind blew her to the shore. This resulted in a landing so heavy that she hit her nose on her helmet, giving her a large bruise. For public appearances after the landing, she needed heavy makeup. She worried this makeup would detract from her image as a pure worker girl. Tereshkova completed three days in space aboard Vostok 6. Bykovsky's Vostok 5 landed after five days in space, three hours after Vostok 6. A few people in the Soviet Air Force attempted to discredit her after her historic flight. Some charged that she was drunk when she reported to the launch pad and that she was insubordinate in orbit and deliberately disregarding orders from the Center. It appears those in charge thought she should have accepted death from the incorrect spacecraft orientation rather than embarrass the managers on the ground. In September 1963, 3 months after the flight, the militia alleged she was drunk and had created a scandal with a militia officer in Gorkiy. She denied the drunkenness but admitted to a confrontation with a militia captain. Kamanin defended her against all charges and it was Tereshkova’s opponents who were dismissed. There had been a joke that Tereshkova should marry Andrian Nikolayev, the only bachelor cosmonaut to have flown. The joke escalated into rumours of a relationship; these rumours reached Premier Khrushchev, who thought it would be a great idea for them to marry and applied pressure through Kamanin. On 3 November 1963 at the Moscow Wedding Palace, Tereshkova and Nikolayev married. The wedding party was held at a governmental mansion and Khrushchev presided, with top government and space leaders in attendance. Tereshkova gave birth to her daughter, Elena Andrianovna, on 8 June 1964. By most accounts however the marriage was not a happy one, though divorcing would mean the end of their careers. The couple were forced to remain together. Tereshkova and the other female cosmonauts were never considered for flight assignments on an equal basis with their male counterparts. Flights by women into space were considered only for propaganda purposes during the Soviet era. The number of flight slots was always fewer than the number of cosmonauts so any woman who flew in space was considered to be taking the place of a man. The proposed all-female Voskhod flight was cancelled; in part due to the pressure from Gagarin and the other male cosmonauts, also to allow the space agency to concentrate on the development of the Soyuz spacecraft. Tereshkova gained a graduate level engineering education at the Zhukovskiy Military Air Academy from 1964 to 1969, after which the female cosmonaut detachment was disbanded. Tereshkova became a Communist politician and international representative. In the late 1970’s the Soviet space agency again recruited female cosmonauts, due to impending flights by American women. Tereshkova hoped to be included and submitted to a medical review in 1978. Though Tereshkova did not pass the tests and was not allowed to fly again, she had fallen in love with a physician, Yuliy Shaposhnikov, at the military medical academy. Tereshkova separated from Nikolayev in 1979 and applied for divorce, but the divorce required the special permission of Soviet Premier Brezhnev, which came in 1982. Tereshkova and Shaposhnikov remained happily married for twenty years until his death in 1999. Tereshkova always dreamed of going back to space and particularly wanted to be part of the first expedition to Mars. She was one of many cosmonauts who were prepared to go on a one-way mission if it meant they could reach the Red Planet. Though Tereshkova never flew in space after 1962, she lent her support to many women’s organisations and worked tirelessly for the Communist Party. Among her many accomplishments include: member of the World Peace Council in 1966; a member of the Yaroslavl Supreme Soviet in 1967; a member of the council of the Union of the Supreme Soviet in 1966-1970 and 1970-1974. In 1974 she was elected to the presidium of the Supreme Soviet and was the Soviet representative to the UN Conference for the International Women's Year in Mexico City in 1975. In the 1980's she continued as a Deputy to the Supreme Soviet, Vice President of the International Women's Federation; and several other international positions. She holds two Orders of Lenin; recognition as a Hero of the Soviet Union; the United Nation Gold Medal of Peace; the Simba International Women's Movement Award; and the Joliot-Curie Gold Medal. In the year 2000, Valentina Tereshkova was named “Greatest Woman Achiever of the Century” by the British Women of the Year Association. In 2011, she was elected to serve in the Russian state Duma, where she continues to serve to this day. Tereshkova lives in a brick dacha on the outskirts of Star City; the house has a seagull weathervane on top, to commemorate her call sign. She has two grandsons, Andrei and Aleksei. In 1982 Svetlana Savitskaya became the second woman in space and in 1984 became the first woman to walk in space. There was a planned all-female Soyuz flight to coincide with International Women's Day in 1985, which was cancelled due to problems with the Salyut 7 space station. After the fall of the Soviet Union, Russian women flew to the Mir and ISS as regular crew members, not for propaganda purposes. “Once you've been in space, you appreciate how small and fragile the Earth is.” Valentina Tereshkova -TEL Read more about Yuri Gagarin here: http://on.fb.me/WtbCqM http://www.astronautix.com/t/tereshkova.html https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/valentina-tereshkova-quotes Image credit: https://www.esa.int/About_Us/ESA_history/50_years_of_humans_in_space/First_woman_in_space_Valentina

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55 Years ago the first woman in space

ROSCOSMOS - Vostok 6 Mission patch. June 18, 2018 55 years ago Valentina Tereshkova escaped to the stars and herself became a bright star!  The first "Seagull" of Soviet cosmonautics (such a call-sign was invented for Tereshkova by SP Korolev) is still the only woman of the planet who made a single space flight.

Valentina Tereshkova entering inside Vostok 6 spacecraft

The first woman in space was former civilian parachutist Valentina Tereshkova, born 6 March 1937, is a retired Russian cosmonaut, engineer, and politician. She is the first woman to have flown in space, having been selected from more than 400 applicants and five finalists to pilot Vostok 6 on 16 June 1963. In order to join the Cosmonaut Corps, Tereshkova was honorarily inducted into the Soviet Air Force and thus she also became the first civilian to fly in space.

55 years since the flight of Valentina Tereshkova

who entered orbit on June 16, 1963, aboard the Soviet mission Vostok 6. The chief Soviet spacecraft designer, Sergey Korolyov, conceived of the idea to recruit a female cosmonaut corps and launch two women concurrently on Vostok 5/6. However, his plan was changed to launch a male first in Vostok 5, followed shortly afterward by Tereshkova. Khrushchev personally spoke to Tereshkova by radio during her flight.

Valentina Tereshkova

On November 3, 1963, Tereshkova married fellow cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev, who had previously flown on Vostok 3. On June 8, 1964, she gave birth to the first child conceived by two space travelers.  The second woman to fly to space was aviator Svetlana Savitskaya, aboard Soyuz T-7 on August 18, 1982. More information: Chronicle of soviet-russian space program: http://en.roscosmos.ru/174/ Valentina Tereshkova on Wikipedia:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentina_Tereshkova Images, Video, Text, Credits: ROSCOSMOS/Wikipedia. Best regards, Orbiter.ch Full article

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Aug. 13, 1962 - Two Soviet astronauts continued to circle the earth this morning on their “group flight” in space. Maj. Andrian G. Nikolayev, piloting the spaceship Vostok III, was on the third day of his orbital voyage. On Moscow television screens, the 32-year-old bachelor appeared bearded and weary, but still efficient. He munched sandwiches and chatted by radio telephone with Lieut. Col. Pavel R. Popovich, whose craft, Vostok IV, was completing its second day in an adjacent orbit. Premier Khrushchev radioed his best wishes for “happy landings” to the astronauts. There was no announcement as to when the spaceships would begin their descents. The two astronauts have exceeded all previous records for extended spaceflight. Vostok III has already traveled more than a million miles, or more than twice the distance to the moon and back.

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“Los piloto-cosmonautas de la URSS”. Pavel Popovich, Yuri Gagarin, Valentina Tereshkova, Andrian Nikolayev, Valery Bykovsky y German Titov. 1 de enero de 1964

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August 11

In 1962, Soviet Cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome to become the third cosmonaut and seventh human to go into space.  

There's nothing easy about spaceflight training, but, of course, the Soviets took everything to the next level.  They placed trainee astronauts into isolation chambers where they had to remain silent and had no way to mark the passage of time; this was done to see how long they would last with no contact in a confined space.  Most trainees cracked pretty quickly; many within a few hours.  Nikolayev?  Four days.  He spent four days in an isolation chamber, and was probably only recovered because the monitors were bored.

That's a bad motherfucker right there.

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Vostok 3&4 cosmonauts Pavel Popovich and Andrian Nikolayev, ~1962.

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Events 8.11 (After 1900)

1918 – World War I: The Battle of Amiens ends. 1919 – Germany's Weimar Constitution is signed into law. 1920 – The 1920 Cork hunger strike begins which eventually results in the deaths of three Irish Republicans including the Lord Mayor of Cork Terence MacSwiney. 1920 – The Latvian–Soviet Peace Treaty, which relinquished Russia's authority and pretenses to Latvia, is signed, ending the Latvian War of Independence. 1929 – Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career with a home run at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio. 1934 – The first civilian prisoners arrive at the Federal prison on Alcatraz Island. 1942 – Actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil receive a patent for a Frequency-hopping spread spectrum communication system that later became the basis for modern technologies in wireless telephones, two-way radio communications, and Wi-Fi. 1945 – Poles in Kraków engage in a pogrom against Jews in the city, killing one and wounding five. 1952 – Hussein bin Talal is proclaimed King of Jordan. 1959 – Sheremetyevo International Airport, the second-largest airport in Russia, opens. 1960 – Chad declares independence from France. 1961 – The former Portuguese territories in India of Dadra and Nagar Haveli are merged to create the Union Territory Dadra and Nagar Haveli. 1962 – Vostok 3 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev becomes the first person to float in microgravity. 1965 – Race riots (the Watts Riots) begin in the Watts area of Los Angeles, California. 1969 – The Apollo 11 astronauts are released from a three-week quarantine following their liftoff from the Moon. 1972 – Vietnam War: The last United States ground combat unit leaves South Vietnam. 1975 – East Timor: Governor Mário Lemos Pires of Portuguese Timor abandons the capital Dili, following a coup by the Timorese Democratic Union (UDT) and the outbreak of civil war between UDT and Fretilin. 1979 – Two Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-134s collide over the Ukrainian city of Dniprodzerzhynsk and crash, killing all 178 aboard both airliners. 1982 – A bomb explodes on Pan Am Flight 830, en route from Tokyo, Japan to Honolulu, Hawaii, killing one passenger and injuring 15 others. 1984 – "We begin bombing in five minutes": United States President Ronald Reagan, while running for re-election, jokes while preparing to make his weekly Saturday address on National Public Radio. 1988 – A meeting between Sayyed Imam Al-Sharif, Osama bin Laden, Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, and leaders of Egyptian Islamic Jihad in Afghanistan culminates in the formation of Al-Qaeda. 1992 – The Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota opens. At the time the largest shopping mall in the United States. 2000 – An air rage incident occurs on board Southwest Airlines Flight 1763 when 19-year-old Jonathan Burton attempts to storm the cockpit, but he is subdued by other passengers and dies from his injuries. 2003 – NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history. 2003 – Jemaah Islamiyah leader Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, is arrested in Bangkok, Thailand. 2006 – The oil tanker MT Solar 1 sinks off the coast of Guimaras and Negros Islands in the Philippines, causing the country's worst oil spill. 2012 – At least 306 people are killed and 3,000 others injured in a pair of earthquakes near Tabriz, Iran. 2017 – At least 41 people are killed and another 179 injured after two passenger trains collide in Alexandria, Egypt.

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Em 1963, Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova tornou-se a primeira mulher no espaço abordo da Vostok 6. Tereshkova completou 48 órbitas ao redor da Terra durante os três dias que ficou no espaço. Após o voo seguiu carreira política durante a URSS e depois na Rússia. Naquele mesmo ano casou-se com o cosmonauta Andrian Grigoriévich Nikolayev. A filha deles, Elena Andrianovna Nikolaeva-Tereshkova, foi a primeira criança nascida de um casal que foi ao espaço e hoje é médica. Via página do facebook: @A Rosa

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The First Ten People to Have Gone Into Space

The First Ten People to Have Gone Into Space

Here is an interesting fact for you. At the time of writing, this only 536 have ever been into space! That is not a lot at all, but someone had to start it off and these ten people you are about to read about where the very first people to have gone into space…

  The First Ten People to Have Gone Into Space

  Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova

10 – Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova – Date of space flight: 16-19 June 1963

Wiki Info: Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova is a retired Russian cosmonaut, engineer, and politician. She is the first woman to have flown in space, having been selected from more than 400 applicants and five finalists to pilot Vostok 6 on 16 June 1963. She completed 48 orbits of the Earth in her three days in space. In order to join the Cosmonaut Corps, Tereshkova was honorarily inducted into the Soviet Air Force and thus she also became the first civilian to fly in space.

Valery Fyodorovich Bykovsky

9 – Valery Fyodorovich Bykovsky – Date of space flight: 14-19 June 1963

Wiki Info: Bykovsky was the son of Fyodor Fyodorovich Bykovsky and Klavdia Ivanova. At age 14 Valery wanted to attend naval school; however, his father was not a proponent of this idea and encouraged him to stay at his school. A few days later Valery listened to a lecture regarding the Soviet Air Force Club that inspired him to pursue his dream of becoming a pilot. Following this lecture, Valery would begin flight theory lessons when he turned 16 at the Moscow City Aviation Club.

Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr

8 – Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr. – Date of space flight: 15-16th May 1963

Wiki Info: Leroy Gordon “Gordo” Cooper Jr. was an American aerospace engineer, test pilot, United States Air Force pilot, and one of the seven original astronauts in Project Mercury, the first manned space program of the United States. Cooper piloted the longest and final Mercury spaceflight in 1963. He was the first American to sleep in space during that 34-hour mission and was the last American to be launched alone to conduct an entirely solo orbital mission. In 1965, Cooper flew as Command Pilot of Gemini 5.

Walter Marty Schirra Jr.

7 – Walter Marty Schirra Jr. – Date of space flight: 3rd October 1963

Wiki Info: Walter Marty “Wally” Schirra Jr. was an American naval officer and aviator, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and one of the original seven astronauts chosen for Project Mercury, United States first effort to put humans in space. He flew the six-orbit, nine-hour Mercury-Atlas 8 mission on October 3, 1962. In the two-man Gemini program, he achieved the first space rendezvous, station-keeping his Gemini 6A spacecraft within 1 foot (30 cm) of the sister Gemini 7 spacecraft in December 1965.

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Pavel Romanovich Popovich

6 – Pavel Romanovich Popovich – Date of space flight: 12-15th August 1962

Wiki Info: He was born in Uzyn, Kiev Oblast of Soviet Union to Roman Porfirievich Popovich (a fireman in a sugar factory) and Theodosia Kasyanovna Semyonov. He had two sisters (one older, one younger) and two brothers. During World War II, the Germans occupied Uzyn, and burned documents including Popovich’s birth certificate. After the war, these were restored through witness testimony, and although his mother knew that he was born in 1929, two witnesses insisted that Popovich was born in 1930, and so this became his official year of birth.

Andriyan Grigoryevich Nikolayev

5 – Andriyan Grigoryevich Nikolayev – Date of space flight: 11-15th August 1962

Wiki Info: Andrian Grigoryevich Nikolayev was born on September 5, 1929 in Sorseli, a village in the Chuvash region of the Volga River valley, and spent his time growing up on a collective farm. Nikolayev loved the idea of flying even as a child. When he was young boy Nikolayev’s interest in flying manifested itself in that he climbed trees with his friends and claimed he would take flight from there. These behaviors were not encouraged by the villagers and Nikolayev did not take flight from any trees.

Malcolm Scott Carpenter

4 – Malcolm Scott Carpenter – Date of space flight: 24th May 1962

Wiki Info: Born May 1, 1925, in Boulder, Colorado, Carpenter moved to New York City with his parents Marion Scott Carpenter and Florence Kelso Carpenter for the first 3 years of his life. His father had been awarded a postdoctoral research post at Columbia University. In the summer of 1927, Scott returned to Boulder with his mother, then ill with tuberculosis. He was raised by his maternal grandparents in the family home at the corner of Aurora Avenue and Seventh Street, until his graduation from Boulder High School in 1943.

John Herschel Glenn Jr

3 – John Herschel Glenn Jr. – Date of space flight: 20th February 1962

Wiki Info: He was one of the Mercury Seven, military test pilots selected in 1959 by NASA as the United States’ first astronauts. On February 20, 1962, Glenn flew the Friendship 7 mission, becoming the first American to orbit the Earth, and the fifth person and third American in space. He received the NASA Distinguished Service Medal in 1962 and the Congressional Space Medal of Honor in 1978, was inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in 1990, and was the last surviving member of the Mercury Seven.

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Gherman Stepanovich Titov

2 – Gherman Stepanovich Titov – Date of space flight: 6-7th August 1961

Wiki Info: Titov’s flight finally proved that humans could live and work in space. He was the first person to orbit the Earth multiple times to spend more than a day in space, to sleep in orbit and to suffer from space sickness. In fact, he also holds the record for being the first person to vomit in space. He was the first to pilot a spaceship personally and he made the first manual photographs from orbit, thus setting a record for modern space photography. He also was the first person to film the Earth using, for ten minutes, a professional quality Konvas-Avtomat movie camera.

Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin

1 – Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin – Date of space flight: 12th April 1961

Wiki Info: Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961. Gagarin became an international celebrity and was awarded many medals and titles, including Hero of the Soviet Union, the nation’s highest honour. Vostok 1 marked his only spaceflight, but he served as backup crew to the Soyuz 1 mission (which ended in a fatal crash).

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Paroles d’astronautes

“L'insensé a dit dans son cœur: Il n'y a point d'Elohim.” (Psaume 53.1)

“Notre Elohim est aux cieux; tout ce qu'il lui a plu, il l'a fait.” (Psaume 115.3)

“Tournez-vous vers l’Elohim vivant,  qui a créé le ciel, la terre, la mer et tout ce qui s'y trouve.” (Actes 14.:15)

Le cosmonaute Andrian Nikolayev, après son vol spatial à bord de Vostok 3 (1962), avait déclaré, comme son prédécesseur Youri Gagarine avant lui, ne pas avoir rencontré Elohim.

Le colonel Gordon Cooper lui répondit : «Dans mes divers vols à bord de Faith 7 et Gemini 5, je n'ai pas, moi non plus, aperçu le Tout-Puissant avec mes yeux, mais j'ai découvert quelques-unes des merveilles qu'il a créées. J'ai senti la présence de mon Elohim, près de moi, à mes côtés, ainsi qu'il l'est constamment. J'ai constaté que j'avais autant besoin de lui à 250 km au-dessus de notre planète que chaque jour en y marchant».

“Ce qu'il y a d'invisible en lui,… sa puissance éternelle et sa divinité, se discerne au moyen de l'intelligence, d'après les choses créées.” (Romains 1.20)

Et en juillet 1969, lors du vol d'Apollo 11, Neil Armstrong, qui le premier posa le pied sur la lune, lut le Psaume 8 :

« Au chef des chantres. Sur la guitthith. Psaume de David. YHWH, notre Seigneur ! Que ton nom est magnifique sur toute la terre ! Ta majesté s'élève au-dessus des cieux. Par la bouche des enfants et de ceux qui sont à la mamelle Tu as fondé ta gloire, pour confondre tes adversaires, Pour imposer silence à l'ennemi et au vindicatif. Quand je contemple les cieux, ouvrage de tes mains, La lune et les étoiles que tu as créées : Qu'est-ce que l'homme, pour que tu te souviennes de lui ? Et le fils de l'homme, pour que tu prennes garde à lui ? Tu l'as fait de peu inférieur à Elohim, Et tu l'as couronné de gloire et de magnificence. Tu lui as donné la domination sur les oeuvres de tes mains, Tu as tout mis sous ses pieds, Les brebis comme les boeufs, Et les animaux des champs, Les oiseaux du ciel et les poissons de la mer, Tout ce qui parcourt les sentiers des mers. YHWH, notre Seigneur ! Que ton nom est magnifique sur toute la terre ! “

Quand je regarde tes cieux, l'ouvrage de tes doigts, la lune et les étoiles que tu as disposées: qu'est-ce que l'homme, que tu te souviennes de lui ?

Oui, qu'est-ce que l'homme?

« Un atome dérisoire perdu dans le cosmos démesuré», a dit Jean Rostand. Et pourtant Elohim l'aime et s'est révélé à lui en Yahshua.

À tous ceux qui reçoivent Yahshua comme Sauveur, il leur donne « le droit d'être enfants d’Elohim » :

“ Mais à tous ceux qui l'ont reçue, à ceux qui croient en son nom, elle a donné le pouvoir de devenir enfants d’Elohim, lesquels sont nés, non du sang, ni de la volonté de la chair, ni de la volonté de l'homme, mais d’Elohim. “ (Jean 1. 12).

Quand il faisait le récit de son atterrissage sur la lune lors du vol Apollo 15 (1971), l'astronaute J. Irwin avait l'habitude d'ajouter :

“Le fait que Yahshua ait marché sur la terre est plus important que le fait qu'un homme ait marché sur la lune”.

L'événement que beaucoup ont salué à l'époque comme l'apogée de la technique a donc moins de valeur aux yeux de l'un de ses acteurs principaux que la venue sur la terre du Fils d’Elohim.

Il faut, en effet, réfléchir aux origines comme aux conséquences de ces deux événements: sur ces plans-là, ils s'opposent entièrement !

D'un côté, l'homme ajoute, à une grande soif, bien naturelle, de connaître le monde qui l'entoure, une ambition insatiable qui le pousse à s'élever au-dessus de tout.

D'un autre côté, Yahshua, le Fils d’Elohim, s'abaisse jusqu'à avoir une mangeoire pour berceau – événement passé inaperçu des humains, sauf de quelques bergers. Il prend un corps semblable au nôtre pour servir les intérêts d’Elohim, dans une obéissance parfaite, dont l'expression suprême est sa mort sur la croix :

“ Ayez en vous les sentiments qui étaient en Yahshua, lequel, existant en forme d’Elohim, n'a point regardé comme une proie à arracher d'être égal avec Elohim, mais s'est dépouillé lui-même, en prenant une forme de serviteur, en devenant semblable aux hommes ; et ayant paru comme un simple homme, il s'est humilié lui-même, se rendant obéissant jusqu'à la mort, même jusqu'à la mort de la croix. “ (Philippiens 2. 6-8).

Et quels sont les résultats de ces deux événements ?

Que l'homme ait marché sur la lune n'a pas changé grand chose pour vous ni pour moi.

Mais que Yahshua soit venu sur la terre, mort sur une croix et ressuscité le troisième jour, voilà qui a changé le sort éternel d'une multitude de gens, tous ceux qui croient en lui et lui obéissent.

--> Très peu de personnes ont voyagé dans l'espace, mais tout homme peut venir à Elohim par Yahshua.

“Voici une voix qui venait des cieux, disant : Celui-ci est mon Fils bien-aimé, en qui j'ai trouvé mon plaisir.” (Matthieu 3. 17)

Russel Schweickart, pilote d'Apollo 9, en découvrant la terre depuis l'espace, s'est émerveillé : « Le fait d'être éloigné de la vie terrestre et de la contempler de l'extérieur constitue une expérience unique : ce n'est pas des centaines de pays différents, c'est un seul endroit et c'est chez nous ».

Oui, elle est très belle, notre planète. Elle apparaît en bleu, parsemée de spirales blanches. Elle se détache, splendide, sur un fond parfaitement noir, mais comme percé de points brillants que sont les étoiles.

Et notre Créateur, comment la voit-il, cette terre ? L'univers a chanté de joie quand il l'a mise en place, tant elle était magnifique. Sur elle il a donné la vie, il a installé l'homme, fait à son image, capable de communiquer avec lui et de l'aimer.

“ Où étais-tu quand je fondais la terre ? Dis-le, si tu as de l'intelligence. Qui en a fixé les dimensions, le sais-tu ? Ou qui a étendu sur elle le cordeau ? Sur quoi ses bases sont-elles appuyées ? Ou qui en a posé la pierre angulaire, Alors que les étoiles du matin éclataient en chants d'allégresse, Et que tous les fils d’Elohim poussaient des cris de joie ? Qui a fermé la mer avec des portes, Quand elle s'élança du sein maternel ; Quand je fis de la nuée son vêtement, Et de l'obscurité ses langes ; Quand je lui imposai ma loi, Et que je lui mis des barrières et des portes ; Quand je dis : Tu viendras jusqu'ici, tu n'iras pas au delà ; Ici s'arrêtera l'orgueil de tes flots ? Depuis que tu existes, as-tu commandé au matin ? As-tu montré sa place à l'aurore, Pour qu'elle saisisse les extrémités de la terre, Et que les méchants en soient secoués ; Pour que la terre se transforme comme l'argile qui reçoit une empreinte, Et qu'elle soit parée comme d'un vêtement ; Pour que les méchants soient privés de leur lumière, Et que le bras qui se lève soit brisé ? As-tu pénétré jusqu'aux sources de la mer ? T'es-tu promené dans les profondeurs de l'abîme ? Les portes de la mort t'ont-elles été ouvertes ? As-tu vu les portes de l'ombre de la mort ? As-tu embrassé du regard l'étendue de la terre ? Parle, si tu sais toutes ces choses. Où est le chemin qui conduit au séjour de la lumière ? Et les ténèbres, où ont-elles leur demeure ? Peux-tu les saisir à leur limite, Et connaître les sentiers de leur habitation ?” (Job 38: 4-20)

Hélas, ses habitants se sont rebellés. Et cette terre qui aurait dû être encore plus belle à sa surface que vue de l'extérieur, est devenue le lieu de souffrance, de désordre, de pollution physique et morale que nous connaissons bien.

Alors notre Créateur est devenu notre Sauveur. Il a envoyé son Fils naître comme un homme, sur ce petit coin de l'univers, et y montrer tout son amour. Dès lors notre terre est devenue encore plus précieuse. Elle a porté le Fils d’Elohim qui, sur elle, a triomphé de Satan, du péché et de la mort. Et c'est là qu'une multitude d'hommes et de femmes seront passés de la mort à la vie pour devenir des adorateurs bienheureux.

«De lui, et par lui, et pour lui, sont toutes choses! À lui la gloire éternellement!» (Romains 11. 36).

Source : La Bonne Semence

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