First Orbit

RantWoman is continuing her 50th anniversary project with attention to the flight of Yuri Gagarin, the first man to orbit the earth. RantWoman assumes her readers are resourceful and can note the occasion with their own search engines, but this item is one place to start, and it comes with an iPhone ap!

http://www.firstorbit.org/



Uppity feminist that RantWoman is, she feels obliged also to note the flight of Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman and the first civilian in space. Regretably Ms. Tereshkova did not make it into space until 1963 though.