{"id":10347,"date":"2015-04-16T22:44:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T12:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/04\/16\/one-more-on-gagarin\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T04:16:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T18:16:48","slug":"one-more-on-gagarin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/04\/16\/one-more-on-gagarin\/","title":{"rendered":"One more on Gagarin"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bill, Pete,<\/p>\n

In keeping with historical events, I have enclosed a few snap-shots from the 1961 Pittsburgh Press dated Wednesday, April 12, 1961.
Yes, a few of us recall that very day. I had filed this newspaper in my Scrap Book back then. It was a bitter sweet thing, to read for most, as we hoped the U.S. to be first but none-the-less, we smiled anyway because, it proved a person could go into space and return. (Flight Breaks Barrier to Space Travel). I was <\/em>very enthusiastic about Rockets, Travel and current events. I built my own capsule in the rafters of my parents home and spent all day up there in the tiny confines as I launched my own secret adventures into Outer-Space. <\/p>\n

Hope you enjoy the photos. I can provide a better set of copies if you are interested. <\/p>\n

73’s<\/p>\n

Harv – WA3EIB
Idaho Falls, ID<\/strong>
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Harv: I converted a small closet into what I saw as an excellent simulator of the Apollo 11 Command Module. Bill <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Our book: “SolderSmoke — Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics” http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm<\/a> Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bumper stickers: http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke<\/a> Our Book Store: http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bill, Pete, In keeping with historical events, I have enclosed a few snap-shots from the 1961 Pittsburgh Press dated Wednesday, April 12, 1961.Yes, a few of us recall that very day. I had filed this newspaper in my Scrap Book back then. It was a bitter sweet thing, to read for most, as we hoped … Continue reading “One more on Gagarin”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103,96,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knack-stories","category-russia","category-space-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10349,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10347\/revisions\/10349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}