50 years of human spaceflight (365-101)
April 12, 2011 is the 50th anniversary of the first human space flight. I’m usually not much for composite images, but I wanted to do something to commemorate the singular achievement of Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, may his memory be for blessing. There are so many discussions this simple idea spawns: life, the universe and everything.
Photo of Yuri Gagarin during training for his flight, taken by an anonymous photographer of the Soviet space program, the ancestor of the Russian Federal Space Agency. (public domain) Credit: TASS
Photo of stars and galaxies imaged by NASA, from the Hubble Space Telescope. This is a small portion of Hubble Ultra Deep Field, which includes objects identified as the most distant objects ever observed by humans. (public domain) Credit: NASA
"My God, it's full of stars!" - Dave Bowman
50 years of human spaceflight (365-101)
April 12, 2011 is the 50th anniversary of the first human space flight. I’m usually not much for composite images, but I wanted to do something to commemorate the singular achievement of Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, may his memory be for blessing. There are so many discussions this simple idea spawns: life, the universe and everything.
Photo of Yuri Gagarin during training for his flight, taken by an anonymous photographer of the Soviet space program, the ancestor of the Russian Federal Space Agency. (public domain) Credit: TASS
Photo of stars and galaxies imaged by NASA, from the Hubble Space Telescope. This is a small portion of Hubble Ultra Deep Field, which includes objects identified as the most distant objects ever observed by humans. (public domain) Credit: NASA
"My God, it's full of stars!" - Dave Bowman