{"id":980,"date":"2008-04-12T14:57:39","date_gmt":"2008-04-12T19:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=980"},"modified":"2008-04-12T14:57:39","modified_gmt":"2008-04-12T19:57:39","slug":"and-today-we-celebrate-comrade-gagarin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=980","title":{"rendered":"And today we celebrate Comrade Gagarin&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/media\/YuriGagarin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"171\" src=\"\/media\/tn_YuriGagarin.jpg\"  height=\"200\" style=\"width: 171px; height: 200px\" \/><\/a>On this date, April 12th, in 1961, Soviet Cosmonaut Yury Alexseyevich\u00a0Gagarin became the first human to travel in space.\u00a0 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=976\">Yuri&#8217;s Night<\/a> celebrations are hosted around the world\u00a0on this date each year to celebrate this event.\u00a0 Congratulations Comrade!<\/p>\n<p class=\"alignright\"><a href=\"\/media\/ColumbiaLiftoff.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" width=\"113\" src=\"\/media\/tn_ColumbiaLiftoff.jpg\"  height=\"200\" style=\"width: 113px; height: 200px\" \/><\/a>Another\u00a0anniversary of note on this date\u00a0was\u00a0the maiden flight (in 1981)\u00a0of the first Space Shuttle, Columbia.<\/p>\n<p>And finally, this date (in 2018) was the initial hoped-for &#8216;start of service&#8217; date for the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.liftport.com\/progress\/wp\/?p=840\">LiftPort Space Elevator<\/a>.\u00a0 Alas&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>(Picture credits: Yuri Gagarin via Tass\/Sovfoto.\u00a0 Columbia via NASA.\u00a0 Click on the thumbnails for slightly larger versions)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this date, April 12th, in 1961, Soviet Cosmonaut Yury Alexseyevich\u00a0Gagarin became the first human to travel in space.\u00a0 Yuri&#8217;s Night celebrations are hosted around the world\u00a0on this date each year to celebrate this event.\u00a0 Congratulations Comrade! Another\u00a0anniversary of note on this date\u00a0was\u00a0the maiden flight (in 1981)\u00a0of the first Space Shuttle, Columbia. And finally, this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}