January 01, 2011 He Said “Let’s Go!” and Waved His Hand This year the whole world is marking the 50th anniversary of the first human flight into space. On April 12, 1961, Soviet citizen Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin made a flight into space aboard the Vostok-1 spacecraft—he orbited the Earth in 108 minutes. A long time ago, I found one very …