Article by WorldNews.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. This week the world, especially Russia, celebrated a great technological achievement that occurred on April 12, 1961. Yuri Gagarin became the first known human to enter outer space, when his Vostok 1 spacecraft orbited Earth. In one sense, it reflected humanities longing to manipulate and control the environment, including humankinds curiosity to explore the unknown world and universe. In another way, though, Russia’s space capsule, that survived the hostilities of time and space, mirrored conflicts taking place back on Earth between the United States and Soviet Union. Vostok 1 was actually developed in a Cold War atmosphere of mistrust,…
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