Russia's Cosmonauts: Inside the Yuri Gagarin Training Center (Springer Praxis Books / Space Exploration)
Matrixsynth (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
YouTube via taskent99 "Experimental sound collage with the Eric Archer Lite2Sound, Digitana Micro Punk Robot (sound modified by Lite2Sound) Critter&Guitari Keypad Cigarbox Synth,Steim CracleBox and BugBrand Board & Postcard Weevil."
Adland (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
Need to increase your creative web presence? Got an awesome portfolio somewhere that nobody is linking to? Want your name to rank higher in search engines? That last part is trickier. We can fix that. I've tried Radostar out. The only thing I've uploaded so far is my cosmonaut mural , my painting of Yuri Gagarin that can already be seen on my website , just to test out the features of...
Click World News (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
... that has the human touch is in the Russian Service Module where there is a classic picture of Yuri Gagarin, an Orthodox Russian crucifix, and picture of [Russian space theorist Konstantin] Tsiokovsky. And then there are some of the science experiments that help bring more life to the station: plant growing, mice, protein crystals, Earth observation photography Life in Space: Email...
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
... that has the human touch is in the Russian Service Module where there is a classic picture of Yuri Gagarin, an Orthodox Russian crucifix, and picture of [Russian space theorist Konstantin] Tsiokovsky. And then there are some of the science experiments that help bring more life to the station: plant growing, mice, protein crystals, Earth observation photography Life in Space: Email...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
Konstantin Feoktistov was an eminent space engineer and Soviet cosmonaut, who feigned death and went on to make history as a member of the first three-man crew to fly into space, in 1964. Following the launch of Sputnik 1, the first Earth-orbiting artificial satellite, on 4 October 1957, and Yuri Gagarin's first manned space flight, on 12 April 1961, the Soviet Union appeared to be well...
The Poor Mouth (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Here's Robert performing the classic song Robot which appeared on the 1979 Hawkwind album PXR5. THis would be the last Hawkwind album he appeared on (apart from the interminable compilation releases and abysmal crap like Bring m the Head of Yuri Gagarin of course). Shame the sound quality is poor.
Bellaonline.com (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
... before producing 58 points in 53 games with Barys Astana in the KHL.The teams compete for the Gagarin Cup. The trophy is named after Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space. The team that won the Gagarin Cup in 2008-2009 was Ak Bars Kazan, which translates to the Kazan Snow Leopards.The Kontinental Hockey League undeniably has huge plans regarding its...
UX Crank (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
... launched its own satellite, Explorer 1, in early 1958.Soviet success continued as Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space in 1961. The U.S.S.R. then launched the first dual-manned flight in 1962, put the first woman in space in 1963, and carried out the first spacewalk in 1965. The Soviet Union’s eventual fade later in the decade had little to do with any superiority...
T-shirts Around the Internet (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
This brand has been sitting in my "to do" list since the beginning of time, so finally, here I am writing about Robatabrand . Robatabrand is run by two individuals, Dan and Mark, who work out of Utah and Alabama respectively. The designs are inspired by the work and life of specific people of interest. Right now they have two series, the "Sience" that features Yuri Gagarin,...
Constantly Furious (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
"We are the best in the world! We are the best in the world! "We have beaten Russia 116-112 in boxing!! It is completely unbelievable! We have beaten Russia! "Russia, birthplace of giants. "Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Gagarin, Maria Sharapova, Nikita Khrushchev, Sergei Prokofiev, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Anna Kournikova, --- we have beaten them all. We have beaten them all....
The Volokh Conspiracy (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
... “Joey Buttafuoco” 77,600 “Elio Chacon” baseball player 1,910 “Richard Wagner” composer 584,000 “Yuri Gagarin” astronaut 91,000 The site could be “seeded” with a couple hundred searches like that. Then, each visitor would put enter his name and identifier, and the results displayed against all the other results and added to the list — one of the conditions of using the site would have...
Daily Mail online | Sport (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Andrey Arshavin remains the most revealing interviewee in the Premier League. In his most recent offering in Russia, he said: ‘I would like to go back and speak to Yuri Gagarin.'
Arsenal news (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Andrey Arshavin remains the most revealing interviewee in the Premier League. In his most recent offering in Russia, he said: ‘I would like to go back and speak to Yuri Gagarin.'
USA Today (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
... when Russia was respected and strong, a fond remembrance of the Soviet defeat of Nazi Germany or Yuri Gagarin's flight into space. "Millions of Russians simply aren't going to spit on the biographies of their grandfathers or fathers any more than we are going to condemn the Founding Fathers because they owned slaves," says New York University professor Stephen Cohen. "It's not their...
The Escapist (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
... at the height of the Cold War.The 21st-century Kosmos foyer is now a kitsch hybrid of Vegas neon (Yuri Gagarin bar!) and black marble, while the rooms and corridors are wood-paneled like the innards of an old yacht. It was in one of these rooms that I met a producer for Best Way, a Ukrainian real-time strategy game developer. Grey and furrowed, he wore the face of million cigarettes....
