https://spacewatch.global/tag/wilfred-burchett/ AN INDEPENDENT PERSPECTIVE ON SPACE Wed, 14 Apr 2021 09:00:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://spacewatch.global/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SpaceWatchGlobal-Sign-90x90.png https://spacewatch.global/tag/wilfred-burchett/ 32 32 https://spacewatch.global/2021/04/spacewatchgl-share-yuri-gagarins-boomerang-the-tale-of-the-first-person-to-return-from-space-and-his-brief-encounter-with-aussie-culture/ Wed, 14 Apr 2021 09:00:18 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=31909 SpaceWatch.Global has been granted permission to publish selected articles and texts. This is “‘Yuri Gagarin’s boomerang: the tale of the first person to return from space, and his brief encounter with Aussie culture”, originally published 11 April 2021 at The Conversation by Alice Gorman. Sixty years ago, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel in space when he completed his historic orbit of Earth on April 12, 1961.]]>