During 20 years of searching for solutions for those in urgent need in life, Melinda realized, “If you want to improve a society, you need to stop lowering women.” That spirit is expressed by Melinda in the book Moment of takeoff – Empowering women to change the world ( The Moment of L ift ). New book was released in Vietnamese in April by Young Publishing House, translated by Tran Thi Ngan Tuyet. Melinda Gates and The Moment of Lift. Photo: AP. How to make wings for women? To justify the title of the book Time to take off Melinda brings readers back to their childhoods – a little girl born in a family whose father is an aviation engineer, directly participates in the Apollo program. Apollo’s rocket launches left a deep mark on Melinda. “These moments give me a deep vibe – especially the moment when the whole machine bursts into flames, the ground vibrates, and the rocket starts to go away,” Melinda wrote. Book of When to Take Off. Photo: Young Publishing House. For Melinda, the moment of takeoff is a miracle, it’s not just the moment when a spaceship, an artificial satellite, an airplane flies into the air, it leads the mind to many other layers of meaning, one of them. is the question: “Where can I fly my wings?” The time when the plane runs on the tarmac is always stressful, sometimes the plane takes off quickly, but sometimes it takes a lot of time. Melinda asks why that phenomenon, what takes us past the tipping point, when the force that pushes us up is greater than the force that holds us back and we lift ourselves off the ground, into the air. For more than 20 years traveling around the world looking for solutions to the vulnerable, Melinda has encountered many difficult situations. She met women who wanted to make their own decisions about when and when to have a baby, but they couldn’t. Many people are not entitled to rights such as: The right to decide whether to marry or not; the right to go to school; the right to have income; the right to walk outside the home; the right to divorce; the right to see a doctor … “How do we give wings to people – especially women?” Asked Melinda. When you give your wings to women, you are lifting humanity. She said that it is necessary to create a moment of takeoff in each person’s heart so that we all want to help women take their wings. “Sometimes just don’t pull them down and a woman can spread her wings,” Melinda wrote. Mrs. Melinda Gates and Mr. Bill Gates. Photo: Getty. Stories about inspirational people In Time to take off, Melinda shares touching stories she learns from inspirational people. These are the people she has met at work and on travel, whom Melinda calls “extraordinary”. Melinda tells about heroes who build schools, save lives, end war, empower girls, change stereotypes … The characters Melinda tells show the difference when women are pieced together. wing. “I think they’ll inspire you. Like how they inspired me, ”the author writes. Mrs. Melinda urged women and men to join hands to give their wings to women, and “when we work together for this mission, we are the wings”. Book Time to take off praised by many famous people and press. Former US President Barack Obama commented: “In her book, Melinda tells the story of the inspirational people she has met through her work around the world, informing and expressing in a powerful way. issues that need our attention – from child marriage to gender inequality in the workplace ”. Malala Yousafzai – the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize winner – wrote: “Melinda Gates has spent many years working with women around the world. This book is an imperative statement for an egalitarian society, where women are valued and recognized in all areas of life. Above all, it is a call for solidarity, inclusion and connection. We need this message more than ever ”. Melinda (her teenage name is Melinda French) was born in 1964 as a former employee of Microsoft company as product manager. In 1994, Melinda married Bill Gates, the couple had three children together. They founded the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in 2000. Since then, it has spent $ 53.8 billion on a series of initiatives related to global health, poverty reduction, and more. On May 3, Bill and Melinda said they had decided to divorce after 27 years.

The moment the Vostok 1 and Gagarin left the launch pad. Photo: AP

Not to be outdone, in 1958, the US also successfully put the Explorer 1 satellite into orbit. After this period, the two sides entered a fierce race to conquer space, aiming to become the first country able to bring people to space.

Finally, the Soviet Union was the country to finish earlier, with astronaut Yuri Gagarin’s orbit exactly 60 years ago, on April 12, 1961 – the flight is historic and is considered to have changed change the world.

According to RBTH, Yuri Gagarin was born on March 9, 1934 in an ordinary carpenter family in Smolensk. At the age of 16, he moved to Moscow and then entered an engineering school in Saratov. Gagarin has been dreaming of the sky since childhood. One of the first pictures of Gagarin that his family still has is a young man standing by the wing of an airplane, raising his hand in excitement.

Image of Gagarin sitting on the Vostok spacecraft 1. Photo: ITN

While still a student in Saratov, Gagarin volunteered to join an aviation club. Thanks to his talent and relentless efforts, in 1955, at the age of 21, Gagarin was sent to the Chkalov First Air Force Pilot School in Orenburg and graduated with excellent results after 2 years.

In November 1957, he officially became a military pilot with the rank of lieutenant in the Soviet Air Force. At the same time, the Soviet Union launched an artificial satellite to bring the dog Laica into space. In the early 1960s, he enrolled in the secret program of selecting astronauts for a flight to space and became one of the group of 20 brightest candidates.

Yuri Gagarin. Photo: ITN

After nearly a year of hard training, Gagarin has proven the qualities that show he is the best person, passing all rigorous physical and mental tests – the most important factor for an astronaut. The universe.

On April 8, 1961, major pilot Gagarin was officially selected to be the first person to fly into space. His substitute was none other than astronaut Gherman Titov, who later flew into space aboard the Vostok 2 spacecraft on August 6, 1961.

The night before the flight, April 11, 1961, Gagarin and Titov spent the night in a small bungalow in Baikonur. “I’m leaving tomorrow and I can’t even believe it will be me,” Gagarin told his colleague. At 5:00 a.m. on April 12, 1961, two astronauts were awakened and taken to Baikonur airport.

The convoy carried Gagarin when he returned to Moscow on April 14, 1961. Photo: TASS

After completing the final procedures, Gagarin boarded the Vostok 1 train, Titov remained for the next mission. At 9:07, the ship and Gagarin left the launch pad. After 10 minutes, the train enters orbit at a speed of 29,000 km / h, reaching a maximum altitude of 327 km. Gagarin became the first person to see the species’ common home from outer space.

“I see the Earth, it’s beautiful,” he said from space in his colleague’s rupture on the ground.

After completing a 108-minute round-the-Earth journey, Gagarin and his landing gear landed safely by parachuting into a field in the state of Saratov. Due to his landing a few kilometers from the proposed site, the first two people to see him were an old farmer woman and a baby girl. Gagarin once spent several minutes explaining to them he was … not a Western spy, according to WION.

Gagarin’s landing gear landed in a field in Saratov. Photo: ITN

When a colleague appeared, he was greeted with glee. He rested for a few days and was brought back to Moscow on April 14, 1961 on a jet. Hundreds of thousands of Soviet citizens filled the streets of Moscow at that time to celebrate the country’s hero.

According to Russian media, because of the dangerous and secret nature of the flight mission, after being selected as the first astronaut, Yuri Gagarin even wrote a suicide note. If the worst happens, the letter will be sent to your family.

Also, since no one had ever been to space before Gagarin, Soviet scientists could not predict every situation that happened to astronauts. Therefore, the Vostok is controlled from the ground and Yuri Gagarin can only intervene in case of emergency.

Talking about the moment in space, Gagari said seeing the soft blue Earth, next to the dark sky, but with many bright stars. Gagarin could not see the Moon but the Sun was very bright, many times brighter than from Earth.

Gagarin visited London in 1961. Photo: Russian DSQ in London

After the legendary flight, Gagarin participated in Soviet space training and research activities. He also spends a lot of time traveling around the world to inspire his travels and met many famous people.

In 1967, after witnessing his best friend, astronaut Vladimir Komarov, died when a mission to connect two spacecraft in orbit failed, he collapsed.

On March 27, 1968, more than a year after the death of his best friend, Yuri Gagarin returned to the flight route with the task of training a test pilot on the first generation MiG-15 jet fighter. However, the MiG-15 crashed shortly after takeoff, killing him.

Gagarin before the fateful flight in 1968. Photo: ITN

At that time, the Soviet Union decided not to publish specific information about the cause of Gagarin’s death, creating many speculations. In 2011, 50 years after Gagarin’s space flight, the Russian government published more than 700 pages of documents about Gagarin, which revealed that the weather on March 27, 1968 was very complicated and the dive moves. Gagarin, or its co-pilot, put the plane in danger.

The International Space Station (ISS). Photo: Wiki

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a plan to start building manned orbital satellites to replace the International Space Station (ISS), which appears to be nearing its end of life.

In recent years, the ISS has started to degrade, astronauts are now regularly detecting cracks, according to RT. Last week, it was revealed that Russian astronauts are still working to seal the leak that was first discovered in 2019. The ongoing problems with the International Space Station have prompted Russia began creating an alternative device.

Called ROSS, the Russian orbital satellite will consist of three to seven modules and can carry up to four people. Although only approved by President Putin on April 12, on the 60th anniversary of the landmark first flight into space by Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the project has been underway for some time.

Last November, the first deputy design general of space contractor RSC Energia expressed confidence that Russia needs to start building a new station, saying that the ISS has collapsed.

“Until 2025, Russia has an obligation to participate in the ISS program” – Mr. Vladimir Solovyov told the Russian Academy of Sciences. “There were some parts that were severely damaged and no longer working. Many parts are irreplaceable. After 2025, we predict a series of failures on the ISS ”.

Russia has a long history of building its own satellites, with Sputnik 1 being the first satellite launched into low earth orbit in 1957. In 1986, the Soviet Union launched a manufactured space station. in the country called Mir – was the largest artificial satellite in orbit at the time.

Last May, the Russian Space Agency Roscomos revealed, ROSS could be ready for deployment after 2024.

Despite Russia’s willingness to do it alone, Roscosmos has reaffirmed its commitment to international cooperation in recent months. Earlier this month, Russia signed a plan to continue cooperation with the US in space and the two countries would use each other’s rockets to enter space.

Roscosmos also signed a moon exploration agreement with China in March, and agreed to share a moon station with Beijing.

While space is often a place for international competition, both Washington and Moscow often help each other when needed. For example, earlier this year, American astronauts donated food to their Russian partners when supplies from the earth were delayed.

The International Space Station is the only laboratory in the world that allows researchers to perform long-term experiments in microgravity. The ISS has been in the presence of humans continuously since November 2000. The ISS is 109 meters long, 75 meters wide – the equivalent of a football field – and weighs 420 tons. The ISS flies at an altitude of about 400km above earth. The ISS moves at a speed of about 8km / sec, or around the earth about 90 minutes / round. The travel from the launch site in Baikonur, Kazakhstan to ISS by Russian Soyuz can take anywhere from 6 to 48 hours, depending on the launch procedure and the station’s position in orbit.