Today Marks Of The Anniversary Of A Landmark Achievement In The History Of Space Exploration

You may have heard that it was fifty years ago today that Yuri Gagarin (a very nice, polite man, apparently, who once squeezed Queen Elizabeth’s knee under the dinner table) became the first of our species to rocket out of Earth’s atmosphere into outer space. Equally important, it was 22 years and 111 days ago today that Dennis Quaid (whose life got worse when he stopped using cocaine) became the first man to be shrunk down and injected into the body of another human being.