Conquer the universe. Photo: Space News. The Korean Ministry of Science, Information Technology and Communication hopes that by becoming the 10th member country of the Agreement, Seoul will further expand cooperation in the field of space with Washington, participating in various fields. the Artemis space exploration program. Accordingly, about 10 years later, Korea will have development steps in space technology on par with the previous potential country. The impetus for Korea to accelerate in the space race Compared to the space powers, Korea has a late start, but the development has positive and rapid results. After the launch of Naro rocket weighing 140 tons and failed in 2013, in 2016 South Korea carried out a Project to develop a spacecraft to explore the Moon worth more than 197.8 billion won (more than 166 million USD). ). As planned, this probe will be equipped with a series of cameras, sensors and spectrometers to collect data on the Moon as well as conduct space connectivity tests. At the beginning of this year, South Korea decided to invest 615 billion won (about 549 million USD) in space projects this year, including plans to launch the first rocket built and developed by the country. new satellites. Accordingly, South Korea also plans to launch a new 200-ton Nuri rocket later this year while a second launch, carrying a satellite, is scheduled for May 2022. In addition, the country will invest 322.6 billion won in projects to develop technology and services for new satellites, and plan to launch a new generation of medium-sized observation satellites next March in Kazakhstan. and is developing a new geostationary communication satellite to put into Earth orbit. Along with participating in the common playing field, Korea’s first lunar orbiter (KPLO – Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter) scheduled to launch in August 2022 has also been developed in cooperation with NASA. In addition, ShadowCam, a device that can overcome visibility limitations to record images in dark areas on the Moon will be installed on this orbiter. ShadowCam is expected to return to the moon’s unlit areas to find potential landing points for the Artemis program. With this event, Korea has gradually developed domestic space technology, combined with the cooperation of other space powers in the world, will gradually occupy an important position in the field of space development. Generally speaking. With this participation, South Korea looks forward to setting a goal of sending its own spacecraft to the Moon by 2030. Accordingly, the country actively promotes challenging space exploration projects, by develop its own launch vehicle and by 2030 can achieve its dream of landing on the Moon. This first step will provide a solid foundation for Korea to conquer space. Korea wants to strengthen national security through this race? Over the centuries, we have witnessed many wars on land and at sea, and those wars have proved the strength of the victors and as well as the lesson of ensuring the safety of the nation, nation. And recently, we have heard and seen the so-called “ocean wars”, meaning the wars in the sea have also begun. As for outer space, decades ago, great powers in this field such as Russia and the United States developed it. And this same nation has also had competition in the conquest of space. The fact that Washington is conducting a manned lunar exploration program, a program to send astronauts to the Moon 50 years after the Apollo project in the 1970s is a sign that the US clearly has a great advantage in this field. race presence on Mars. However, experts say, so far, no country has been confident that it can send people to this planet located 225 million km from Earth. In the context of the race that has shown signs of heating in recent years, and with many worries that the Earth is becoming more and more crowded with humans, Russia and the US are both showing their ambition to soon bring humans to live. on the Red Planet and marks its sovereignty over space entities, including the Moon. From that perspective, the US wants to take action so that space activities can be transparent, preventing disputes over space activities. South Korea cannot stay out of this competition as an ally of the United States. South Korea has begun a feasibility study for a mission to discover the near-Earth asteroid – Apophis. This ensures competitiveness, but is also a first step to position the country on another planet with life in the future.

According to the Daily Mail, the world’s deepest swimming pool will be built in Cornwall (UK) with a total investment of more than 200 million USD. Its name is Blue Abyss (roughly translated: Blue Abyss). The depth of the pool is about 50 m. The swimming pool can hold more than 42,000 cubic meters of water, equivalent to 17 Olympic standard swimming pools or… 168 million cups of tea. With these numbers, Blue Abyss will become the largest and deepest indoor swimming pool in the world. However, it is not open to serve ordinary people. The swimming pool is used for research, testing and training in a number of fields such as energy, marine, defense and space. The construction is expected to be completed after 18 months from the time the planning permit is granted. It is likely that in the second quarter of 2023, Blue Abyss will be officially put into use. It is expected that Blue Abyss will create 160 jobs for workers and earn 11 million pounds a year for the local economy. In addition, the swimming pool can also be rented as a movie set. This will attract famous actors looking to the Cornwall area. Project Blue Abyss features Tim Peake, the legendary British astronaut. He said: “Cornwall is the perfect location for the Blue Abyss. This is an area rich in potential for ambitions to conquer space, space and renewable energy.” Sketches show the pool will be housed in a unique teardrop-shaped building designed by British architect Robin Partington. Currently, the deepest swimming pool in the world is DeepSpot, located in Poland. It was officially opened on November 21, 2020 with a depth of 45 m, a total volume of water equivalent to 27 Olympic standard tanks. The swimming pool is open to the public and is used as a diver training center.

A few weeks before astronaut Yury Gagarin made his legendary flight on April 12, 1961, a mannequin dressed in a pilot’s outfit called “Ivan Ivanovich” with a dog ” Star”. The astronaut’s chair “Vostok” (East). Photo: Aleksandr Mokletsov / Sputnik. In addition, on board there is also a tape recorder used to transmit back to Earth recordings of recipes and choral songs. This particular act is intended to confuse Americans who are watching the flight and are trying in vain to decipher the encrypted information. 2. The words “СССР” on the astronaut’s hat The words “СССР” (short for “Union of the Soviet Socialist Republic”) were inscribed on astronaut Yury Gagarin’s helmet exactly 20 minutes before flying. Yury Gagarin said goodbye to his friends before flying into space. Photo: Sputnik. In the last moment, it was decided to do it so that upon landing on Earth, astronauts would not be confused with foreign spies. Because exactly a year earlier, in the airspace of the Soviet Union people had shot down an American spy plane named Francis Gary Powers. This person also wears a similar helmet. 3. Simple phrase but famous worldwide When the spaceship was launched, Yury Gagarin should have said a formal sentence saying “Crew, let’s go!”. However, he said a simple phrase that would later become famous worldwide was “Poyekhali!” (Go!). Yury Gagarin before setting off on the “Vostok-1”. Photo: Sputnik. When taking off on a regular plane, Yury Gagarin’s instructor Mark Gallay often said that, but he really did not understand what it was for when the crew had only one person. 4. The spaceship is controlled automatically Yury Gagarin’s “Vostok-1” spacecraft is controlled by automatic mode. Because, no one can predict how people in such extreme conditions will behave. Spaceship “Vostok-1” with the world’s first astronaut Yury Gagarin at departure. Photo: Sputnik. In case of a mishap, Yury Gagarin was given an envelope with a manual drive activation code. Activation codes can be obtained by solving a simple, but complex, arithmetic problem in a panic state. 5. Farewell letter Before flying, Yury Gagarin wrote a farewell letter to his wife Valentina in case he was unable to return to Earth. This letter was not received until seven years later, when Yury Gagarin died during a training flight on March 27, 1968. Valentina Gagarina and her daughter Lena read a letter to the “Little Flame” magazine after Yury Gagarin’s death. Photo: A. Golikov / Sputnik. 6. “I’m on fire, farewell, comrades!” It was not clear at the time, what a spacecraft would look like when flying through dense layers of the atmosphere. Seeing the sparks of fire on the doorway of the ship, Gagarin said that his ship was in distress and spread the news about the Earth: “I am on fire, farewell comrades!” For good reasons, people decided to forget these words. Scientists tracked Yury Gagarin’s state in space from the Flight Control Center. Photo: Sputnik. 7. Characteristics of promotion to Major Yury Gagarin flew into space with the rank of Lieutenant, and when he flew back to Earth, he took the rank of Major. There is a theory that, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev ordered Defense Minister Rodion Malinovsky to give a special promotion to Yury Gagarin, ignore the rank of Captain and go straight to Major. Yury Gagarin and First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party Nikita Khrushchev. Photo: Aleksandr Sergeev / Sputnik. 8. Carry guns into space While the ship “Vostok-1” made a flight, for the first time in history humans brought guns into space. Yury Gagarin is given a Makarov pistol. The astronaut is expected to land in a remote area where he must protect himself from wild beasts. This happened to the crew of the train “Voskhod-2” (Dawn) in 1965, when they had to return fire to drive away swarms of wolves and bears in the snow-covered forest south of the Ural Mountains. The spacecraft device “Vostok-1” and Yury Gagarin landed on Earth. Photo: Sputnik. 9. Nearly died when he returned to Earth It was technically impossible for the astronaut to land on Earth at that time, so Yury Gagarin threw himself out and landed with a parachute. In his tight armor, he did not immediately open the valve to supply oxygen, so he was suffocated for a while. After completing the heavy duty, the first person to fly into space almost died when he returned to Earth. Yury Gagarin after returning to Earth. Photo: Sputnik. 10. “Don’t talk about this with anyone!” Two days after the historic flight, at a reception held inside the Kremlin, Soviet Communist Party First Secretary Nikita Shrushchev pulled Yury Gagarin aside and asked the astronaut if he could see God and get Gagarin. The joke is yes. The world’s first astronaut Yury Gagarin. Photo: Sputnik. The leader of the Soviet Union immediately said: “Please do not talk about this with anyone!”. After a while, BishopAlexy I came up to ask the same question. Yury Gagarin at that time joked awkwardly to the head of the Russian Orthodox Church and replied: “No, Father, unfortunately I can’t see it.” “Yury, please don’t bring this to anyone!”, The priest said.

Artwork: Teslarati.com According to NASA’s announcement, the contract to bring astronauts to the Moon as early as 2024 was signed with a value of nearly $ 3 billion. The contract will use the prototype spacecraft Starship, designed for a large crew with the necessary equipment for space exploration missions. Starship ships can land vertically on the surface of the Earth as well as other planets in the universe. So far, test flights have not been successful, but the group is working to build new test vehicles. NASA expert Lisa Watdon-Morgan said: “We have selected a partner and are preparing to implement the next phase. “We have to make sure to run the tests because we won’t send people to the Moon until the trials are successful.” Unlike the Apollo lunar landings between 1969 and 1972, NASA is currently preparing for a permanent presence on the Moon, a stepping stone to an even more ambitious plan, that is. is to send astronauts to Mars. This decision by NASA makes the race to conquer the Moon and other planets in the universe between the US and other powers becomes hotter. In the latest move, China’s aerospace science community on April 24 affirmed that this country is a cosmic power, capable of exploring space, exploring deeper areas in the universe by unmanned vehicles. . Scientists in this country also did not hide their ambition to bring people to the Moon soon. Chinese Academy of Sciences scholar Ye Peijian, Ye Peijian, said: “We are planning to conduct asteroid probes. We will accomplish this mission in 10 years. We also hope that China will soon be able to send people to the Moon in the near future. In early December 2020, China announced that the Hang Nga 5 probe had landed successfully and placed a flag on the surface of the Moon. This is the third successful Chinese landing in the past 7 years. Once a weak country in the space race, China has continuously developed aerospace programs in recent years with the ambition to conquer new territories. In early March 2021, the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos said that the country and China signed a memorandum of understanding to build a lunar space station together. The space station will be designed as a complex of experimental research facilities that operate on the surface or orbit of the Moon. Russian officials also announced that they will try new boosters to continue their lunar exploration program this year. Besides the US, Russia, China, some other countries such as Japan, European Union, India, Korea, Israel, South Africa … also announced ambitious Moon exploration programs in the coming time. Besides the Moon, conquering Mars is also becoming a target of fierce competition among countries. Just in February, the American Perseverance self-propelled vehicle, China’s Tianan-1 spacecraft, Hope of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) visited Mars one after another. According to space experts, the polls have different objectives but all show the interest of space powers to the Red planet. Not only is it intended for military and civilian purposes, the future space race is also related to economic benefits estimated to be worth trillions of dollars./.

A few weeks before astronaut Yury Gagarin made his legendary flight on April 12, 1961, a mannequin in the pilot’s outfit named “Ivan Ivanovich” with a dog ” Star”.

The astronaut’s chair “Vostok” (East). Photo: Aleksandr Mokletsov / Sputnik

In addition, on board there is also a tape recorder used to transmit back to Earth recordings of recipes and choral songs. This particular act is intended to confuse Americans who are watching the flight and are trying in vain to decipher the encrypted information.

2. The words “СССР” on the astronaut’s hat

The words “СССР” (short for “Union of the Soviet Socialist Republic”) were inscribed on astronaut Yury Gagarin’s helmet exactly 20 minutes before flying.

Yury Gagarin said goodbye to his friends before flying into space. Photo: Sputnik

In the last moment, it was decided to do it so that upon landing on Earth, astronauts would not be confused with foreign spies. Because exactly a year earlier, in the airspace of the Soviet Union people had shot down an American spy plane named Francis Gary Powers. This person also wears a similar helmet.

3. Simple phrase but famous worldwide

When the spacecraft was launched, Yury Gagarin should have said a formal sentence that says “Crew, let’s go!”. However, he said a simple phrase that would later become famous worldwide was “Poyekhali!” (Go!).

Yury Gagarin before setting off on the “Vostok-1”. Photo: Sputnik

When taking off on a regular plane, Yury Gagarin’s guide Mark Gallay often said that, but he really did not understand what it was for when the crew had only one person.

4. The spaceship is controlled automatically

Yury Gagarin’s “Vostok-1” spacecraft is controlled by automatic mode. Because, no one can predict how people in such extreme conditions will behave.

Spaceship “Vostok-1” with the world’s first astronaut Yury Gagarin at departure. Photo: Sputnik

In case of a mishap, Yury Gagarin was given an envelope with a manual drive activation code. Activation codes can be obtained by solving a simple, but complex, arithmetic problem in a panic state.

5. Farewell letter

Before flying, Yury Gagarin wrote a farewell letter to his wife Valentina in case he was unable to return to Earth. This letter was not received until seven years later, when Yury Gagarin died during a training flight on March 27, 1968.

Valentina Gagarina and her daughter Lena read a letter to the “Little Flame” magazine after Yury Gagarin’s death. Photo: A. Golikov / Sputnik

6. “I’m on fire, farewell comrades!”

It was not clear at the time, what a spacecraft would look like when flying through the dense layers of the atmosphere. Seeing the sparks of fire on the doorway of the ship, Gagarin said that his ship was in distress and spread the news about the Earth: “I am on fire, farewell comrades!” For good reasons, people decided to forget these words.

Scientists tracked Yury Gagarin’s state in space from the Flight Control Center. Photo: Sputnik

7. Characteristics of promotion to Major

Yury Gagarin flew into space with the rank of Lieutenant, and when he flew back to Earth, he took the rank of Major. There is a theory that, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev ordered Defense Minister Rodion Malinovsky to give a special promotion to Yury Gagarin, ignore the rank of Captain and go straight to Major.

Yury Gagarin and First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party Nikita Khrushchev. Photo: Aleksandr Sergeev / Sputnik

8. Carry guns into space

While the ship “Vostok-1” made a flight, for the first time in history humans brought guns into space. Yury Gagarin is given a Makarov pistol. The astronaut is expected to land in a remote area where he must protect himself from wild beasts. This happened to the crew of the train “Voskhod-2” (Dawn) in 1965, when they had to return fire to drive away swarms of wolves and bears in the snow-covered forest south of the Ural Mountains.

The spacecraft device “Vostok-1” and Yury Gagarin landed on Earth. Photo: Sputnik

9. Nearly died when he returned to Earth

It was technically impossible for the astronaut to land on Earth at that time, so Yury Gagarin threw himself out and landed with a parachute. In his tight armor, he did not immediately open the valve to supply oxygen, so he was suffocated for a while. After completing the heavy duty, the first person to fly into space almost died when he returned to Earth.

Yury Gagarin after returning to Earth. Photo: Sputnik

10. “Don’t talk about this with anyone!”

Two days after the historic flight, at a reception held inside the Kremlin, Soviet Communist Party First Secretary Nikita Shrushchev pulled Yury Gagarin aside and asked the astronaut if he could see God and get Gagarin. The joke is yes.

The world’s first astronaut Yury Gagarin. Photo: Sputnik

The leader of the Soviet Union immediately said: “Please do not talk about this with anyone!”. After a while, Bishop Alexy I came up to ask the same question. Yury Gagarin at that time joked awkwardly with the head of the Russian Orthodox Church and replied: “No, Father, unfortunately I can’t see it.” “Yury, please don’t bring this to anyone!”, The priest said.

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.