Thanks, this is very interesting.
I have met far more devout Christians in Russia then I do in the ordinary course of business in America.
They know what it’s like to live under a heartless and Godless gangster government, and they can tell you chapter and verse about the crimes of Stalin.
Being an early cosmonaut required real bravery.
Wow...this totally comes out of the blue to me. Whoda thunk??
If true...utterly fantastic.
If you’re gonna sit on top of what is essentially a great big bomb and go into orbit, you’d damn well BETTER believe in God. lol (especially back then when everything was an unknown)
Yuri Gagarin, first human in space, was a devout Christian, says his close friend
The book reveals a touching letter Gagarin wrote to his family before the mission in which he pondered his own mortality, telling his wife not to “die of grief” if he never returned. “After all life is life and there is no guarantee for anybody that tomorrow a car might not end one’s life.”
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It’s a shame he died in a senseless accident a few years later.
I remember Yuri I was 12 years old and we discussed this at school...
I also remember learning that one of the astronauts went “around the world in 80 minutes” (from the Around the World in 80 days” movie..)
the article says Yuri took 108 minutes
was that Gary Shepherd that went around in 80 minutes ???
Gagarin wasn’t the first man in space. The first one was a Soviet Cosmonaut who died
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World chess champions Smyslov and Spassky were both Christians.
“An astronaut cannot be suspended in space and not have God in his mind and his heart.”
Amen!
I’d try to be close to God too if I were going up in a vostok capsule.
Best way I can describe the Vostok is a cannonball with a screw top lid.
Man, that took some guts.
I would think that someone who was likely to meet his creator on such a mission (considering the quality of Soviet engineering) would have an abiding faith in God and Christ. Because he would need that sort of divine providence to come out the other side alive, rather than as space junk.
American astronaut: "All you had to do was step outside your capsule, and you would have!"
Appreciated the post, by the way. Much thanks.
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