Yuri Gagarin

Hidden Figures, Part 1: The Historical Background

February 11, 2018

Note: The material that follows — presented in the present tense — was gathered from several sources, including Wikipedia and IMBDatabase. In 1961, mathematician Katherine Goble works as a human computer in the segregated division West Area Computers of the…

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Gijus van Wulfen on “10 Practical Innovation Lessons from Great Explorers”

September 28, 2013

In The Innovation Expedition, Gijus van Wulfen identifies and discusses lessons to be learned from great explorers such as Roald Amundsen, Neil Armstrong, Christopher Columbus, Yuri Gagarin, Edmund Hillary, David Livingston, Ferdinand Magellan, and Ernest Shackleton. All of these them…

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