David J. Williams » yuri gagarin http://autumnrain2110.com/blog Autumn Rain 2110 Wed, 05 May 2021 07:38:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 “I have never heard anything like it on Earth”: Yuri Gagarin speaks http://autumnrain2110.com/blog/2010/03/09/i-have-never-heard-anything-like-it-on-earth-yuri-gagarin-speaks/ http://autumnrain2110.com/blog/2010/03/09/i-have-never-heard-anything-like-it-on-earth-yuri-gagarin-speaks/#comments Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:50:50 +0000 http://autumnrain2110.com/blog/?p=1819 Neil Tyson reminded folks on Twitter that today is Gagarin’s birthday, so I went and looked up an old book I’ve got on the early Russian space program in search of his description of man’s first journey into space (1961).  There’s a stereotype that astronauts aren’t too articulate in describing the wonders of space; if that’s the case, Gagarin was definitely an exception:

The roar was loud, but not really any louder than what you usually hear in the cockpit of a jet plane.  Another interesting thing is that a great many new musical nuances and timbres can be heard in that roar.  I have never heard anything like it on earth.  I got the impression that the powerful rocket engines were creating the music of the future—perhaps more moving than the music of our time.

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