Geek Fact for April 12th

By Judy Novotny / 04/12/2012 / Geek Facts

In 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person to orbit Earth.

Yuri Gagarin made a 108-minute orbital flight in his Vostok 1 spacecraft.
Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard became the first American in space less than a month later. The Space Race was in full swing.

Learn more at http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/sts1/gagarin_anniversary.html

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Judy is a computer veteran with 30 years of experience. She has owned everything from a TRS-80, Apple IIe and various Windows-based PCs. She is currently living in her Apple ecosystem at home consisting of an iPhone, iPad, iMac, MacBook, Apple TV, iPod nano and two Time Capsules. She is a fan of all things mobile since she got her first Palm Pilot in 1999. Check out her iPad app, Number Wizard, in the App Store. Follow her on Twitter @junovotech or at Junovo.com.