Start here with NewsWars' "Russian Cosmonaut Warns History Is Being Re-Written as Space Industry Conference Drops Yuri Gagarin's Name," Steve Watson, March 21, 2022.
Yuri Gagarin is the first man to travel in space, and he did so in 1961. Sputnik was the first rocket into space. It went up on October 4, 1957.
The U.S.'s first manned space flight was on February 20. 1962 when John Glenn became the first American in orbit aboard Friendship 7 on a Mercury-Atlas rocket. Whoa. Here is a timeline of space flight accomplishments.
This is unbelievable.
— Richard Medhurst (@richimedhurst) March 19, 2022
Attacking the accomplishments of the first man in space, who is no longer with us, under the pretext of Ukraine? This is just Russophobia in plain sight. https://t.co/WbxSyZ9vx8
“Orbiting Earth in the spaceship, I saw how beautiful our planet is. People, let us preserve and increase this beauty, not destroy it!”
— Grant Orino (@scrymnstrs) March 19, 2022
Yuri Gagarin pic.twitter.com/0GMC0Sip78
