Yuri Gagarin`s Epic Flight

[gagarin123]

Today is the anniversary of the spectacular flight made by Yuri Gagarin in Vostok-1 - It constantly amazes me why this flight which opened the flood gates for manned space flight is always forgotten?
Also why there are not many films and books and space shuttles and places named after this great man?
Many people have not even heard of him!
Anyway here is to you Colonel Yuri Gagarin - you started it all off and hope you are flying still among the stars
Colin Evans

 

[rucinter]

A true space enthusiast can't forget Yuri Gagarin.

 

[SiberianTiger]

Also why there are not many films and books and space shuttles and places named after this great man?

Places named after Gagarin:

• A town in Smolensk region, formerly Gzhatsk;
• A crater on the Moon;
• Asteroid #1772;
• A space mission support ship (now already scrapped);
• one rocket launch pad;
• one spacemen training centre;
• one Air Force Academy;
• Streets and districts in most of major ex-USSR cities;
• The general education school I studied in;
• ... and everything else I don't recall.

The worst luck is with space shuttles: perhaps, if the Buran project had survived, one would exist.