Posted on 04/13/2020 10:18:56 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Russia’s Foreign Ministry has accused the U.S. State Department of spreading disinformation by not mentioning Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin in a Facebook post about the International Day of Human Space Flight. […]
“Not noting this is disinformation and a base trick of the post-truth epoch,” the Russian ministry said on its own page. …
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If you go to Russia, you’ll know that most believe Neil Armstrong was a fraud and the moon landing a conspiracy.
The Russian space industry is gone. Their engines and rockets are obsolete, and the market is not interested.
Bye!
In the meantime, they’re making 400 foot tall rockets that will re land.
Ef Russia.
In the meantime, they’re making 400 foot tall rockets IN TEXAS! that will re land.
OOps
Ask 9 out of 10 Americans who Yuri Gagarin was and you’ll get blank stares.
So why should out State Dept. care if the Rooskies are upset?
Laika was far more significant than Yuri. She died for the cause, as well, but on her first and ONLY trip, since they didn’t know how to land a spacecraft yet...
That’s pretty sad. They likely weren’t told to believe it. Western Leftists are the same for the most part. They need to be told what they’re supposed to believe before believing anything.
I don’t know anything about an international observance of spaceflight. But, I DO know, that Yuri Gagarin was one brace dude. It took the USA quite a while to make an orbital mission. I’ve always respected Gagarin as a hero in the same vein as the Wright’s or Lindbergh.
That’s just my opinion.
But but but Trump is Putin’s stooge and all.
According to the above logic, Gagarin’s name should have been the most prominent on the State Department pages with respect to Spaceflight Day, right?
We're worked along side the Russians for years at the Space Station with no problems. And Yes...Yuri has a place.
I was in High School for Sputnik. Clue: They beat us!!
Russia has a big place in the History of Space Travel.
Because the first human to survive a launch into space is not really meaningful in the grand sense. It’s not like there’s a huge national celebration of John Glenn either. Landing live humans on the moon? Yeah that’s a big freaking deal.
I've heard from Poles that believe Yuri Gagarin died on the moon.
9 out of 10 wouldn’t know who our astronauts were/are.
Somebody should ask Russia when they will start mentioning the USA’s contribution to the victory of WWII in their history books and schools.
Not only landing them there but bringing them home safely.
I agree. He got there first much to our chagrin.
First maybe Russia should let us know about the ones that went up....and didn’t come back.
Alice Kramden beat him there.
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