* Poltava National Technical University named after Yuri Kondratyuk

In his paper “ Тем кто будет читать, чтобы строить ” ( To whoever will read paper in order to build interplanetary rocket ), which he dated “ 1918-1919 ,” Yuri Kondratyuk suggested that a spacecraft traveling between two planets could be accelerated at the beginning of its trajectory and decelerated at the end of its trajectory by using the gravity of the two planets ' moons.

It was proposed by Yuri Kondratyuk, a self-educated Ukrainian, who calculated that LOR was the most economical way of landing a human on the Moon.

Samantha Smith ( center ) visiting the USSR upon the invitation of General Secretary of the Central Committee of CPSU Yuri Andropov in all-Union Artek pioneer camp on July 1, 1983

* Yuri Artsutanov ( born 1929 ), Russian pioneer of the idea of Space Elevator

The first human spaceflight in history was accomplished on a derivative of R-7, Vostok, on 12 April 1961, by Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.

The Soviet space program achieved many of the first milestones, including the first living being in orbit in 1957, the first human spaceflight ( Yuri Gagarin aboard Vostok 1 ) in 1961, the first spacewalk ( by Aleksei Leonov ) in 1965, the first automatic landing on another celestial body in 1966, and the launch of the first space station ( Salyut 1 ) in 1971.

The first person to fly in space, Yuri Gagarin, became also the first to complete an orbital spaceflight on spaceship Vostok 1, in 1961.

The first human spaceflight was Vostok 1 on April 12, 1961, aboard which Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin made one orbit around the Earth.

The first human spaceflight was Vostok 1 on April 12, 1961, on which cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin of the USSR made one orbit around the Earth.

The first orbital spaceflight was in 1957 and Yuri Gagarin was carried aboard the first manned orbital spaceflight in 1961.

In a similar move taken by the Soviet Union and the United States ( with national space flight heroes Yuri Gagarin and John Glenn, respectively ), an official decision to no longer assign him to spaceflight missions was made ( note: Glenn subsequently flew a second space flight on October 29, 1998, on Space Shuttle Discovery's STS-95 ).

The first human spaceflight in history was accomplished on this spacecraft on April 12, 1961, by Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.

* April 12 – Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin makes the first human spaceflight, orbiting the Earth once in 108 minutes in Vostok 1.

For example, Yuri Gagarin earned recognition for the first manned spaceflight, despite failing to meet FAI requirements.

After his third spaceflight Voss spent two years training at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia.

In addition to this spaceflight, the Expedition 2 Commander Yuri Usachev also had two other spaceflights, both of which were long-duration missions aboard Mir ( EO-15 and EO-21 ).

The other crew member of ISS EP-1 was Yuri Baturin, who had one other spaceflight, Mir EP-4, which was a visiting mission to Mir launched with the spacecraft Soyuz TM-28.

Yuri Gidzenko was designated commander and pilot of the two-day Soyuz mission to the station, had one previous spaceflight, which was a 180 day stay aboard Mir.

He began training on 31 May for a planned launch on the spacecraft Vostok 1 ( aboard which Yuri Gagarin carried out the first human spaceflight a year later ).

According to Golyakhovsky, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin spent several hours at the hospital as " deathwatch officer " and Bondarenko died of shock 16 hours after the accident, less than three weeks before Gagarin's historic spaceflight.

The series has a spaceflight motif and is intended to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's and mankind's first flight into space as well as the 40th anniversary of the Kamen Rider Series.

* Yuri Osipyan-physicist, author of fundamental contribution to the physics of movements in solid bodies and inventor of photoplastic effect.

While officially Strela's chief designer was Yuri Bazilevsky, Bashir Rameyev, who developed the project prior to Bazilevsky's appointment, could be considered its main inventor.

On that cold, but bright, April day we were guests of your government in the reviewing stand of Red Square to witness the poeple's celebration for Yuri Gagarin and later on that day we attended the somewhat more exclusive reception for him in one of the impressive palaces of the Kremlin.

Alla Sizova, who seems to have made a special hit in the East, was delightful as the lady Bluebird and her partner, Yuri Soloviev, was wonderfully virile, acrobatic, and poetic all at the same time, in a tradition not unlike that of Nijinsky.

Splendid, too, is the performance of Yuri Tolubeyev, one of Russia's leading comedians, as Sancho Panza, the fat, grotesque `` squire ''.

Yuri Soloviev, Oleg Sokolov, Alexei Zhitkov, Lev Sokolov, Yuri Korneyev and Mr. Livshitz were the chief soloists, but everybody on stage was magnificent.

On April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person to fly in space, reinforcing American fears about being left behind in a technological competition with the Soviet Union.

* 2003 – Yuri Malenchenko becomes the first person to marry in space.

* 1983 – American schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about nuclear war.

Although Whorf's approach to understanding the Maya script is now known to have been misguided, his central claim that the script was phonetic and should be deciphered as such was vindicated by Yuri Knorozov's syllabic decipherment of Mayan writing in the 1950s.

The rock band from Pasadena, Ozma plays a balalaika on the song " Flight Of Yuri Gagarin "; it is derived from their partially Russian themed album Double Donkey Disc.

The author, like his protagonist Yuri Zhivago, showed more concern for the welfare of individual characters than for the " progress " of society.

On April 12, 2011, she played live through video link for the audience of Jethro Tull's show in Russia in honour of the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's flight.

Two days passed between his death and the announcement of the election of Yuri Andropov as the new General Secretary, suggesting to many outsiders that a power struggle had occurred in the Kremlin.

In December 1995, at the Fourth WWW Conference in Boston, he was the first recipient of what would later become the Yuri Rubinsky Memorial Award.

This includes three of Engelbart's key papers, edited into book form by Yuri Rubinsky and Christina Engelbart to commemorate the presentation of the 1995 SoftQuad Web Award to Doug Engelbart at the World Wide Web conference in Boston in December 1995.

In 1970, Yuri Matiyasevich proved that this could not be done.

However, Vertov's two credos, often used interchangeably, are in fact distinct, as Yuri Tsivian points out in the commentary track on the DVD for Man with the Movie Camera: for Vertov, " life as it is " means to record life as it would be without the camera present.

" Lines of resistance: Dziga Vertov and the twenties / edited and with an introduction by Yuri Tsivian.

* Yuri Tsivian, ed.

* Dziga Vertov's Man with the Movie Camera DVD, audio commentary track by Yuri Tsivian.

Even whom should be considered the earliest known king is contested: although C. Conti Rossini proposed that Zoskales of Axum, mentioned in the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, should be identified with one Za Haqle mentioned in the Ethiopian King Lists ( a view embraced by later historians of Ethiopia such as Yuri M. Kobishchanov and Sergew Hable Sellasie ), G. W. B.