Scrapbook highlights

Some of the more interesting or notable articles from the 1960s space scrapbooks : Yuri Gagarin’s spaceflight : The Voice From Space said yesterday: “The sky is very, very dark, and the Earth is a light blue. Everything can be seen very clearly.” It was the voice of Yuri Alexeyevitch Gagarin, the young Russian who, a few minutes before, had been hurled skywards into the greatest adventure ever…