Joseph Michael "Joe" Acaba born May 17, 1967 ( YG was born March 9, 1934 ) Acaba is an educator, hydrogeologist, and NASA astronaut.( YG was a Russian Soviet pilot and cosmonaut) In May 2004 he became the first person of Puerto Rican heritage to be named as a NASA astronaut candidate, when he was selected as a member of NASA Astronaut Training Group 19.( Gagarin was the first human to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961. ) He completed his training on February 10, 2006 and was assigned to STS-119, which flew from March 15 to March 28, 2009 to deliver the final set of solar arrays to the International Space Station. ( YG Gagarin became an international celebrity, and was awarded many medals and titles, including Hero of the Soviet Union, the nation's highest honour. Gagarin later became deputy training director of the Cosmonaut Training Centre outside Moscow, which was later named after him) Acaba served as a Flight Engineer aboard the International Space Station, having launched on May 15, 2012. He arrived at the space station on May 17 and returned to Earth on September 17, 2012 at 6:53am Moscow Standard Time when touchdown was officially recorded by the Russian Federal Space Agency. (Yuri took his first solo flight in 1955. He was frequently praised for his ability to handle a plane and his skill in making a smooth landing; "He'll make a wonderful pilot). Acaba's parents, Ralph and Elsie Acabá, from Hatillo, Puerto Rico, moved in the mid-1960s to Inglewood.
(Yuri Gagarin was born in the village of Klushino, near Gzhatsk on 9 March 1934 ). (YG On 27 March 1968, while on a routine training flight from Chkalovsky Air Base, he and flight instructor Vladimir Seryogin died in a crash).
(Yuri Gagarin was born in the village of Klushino, near Gzhatsk on 9 March 1934 ). (YG On 27 March 1968, while on a routine training flight from Chkalovsky Air Base, he and flight instructor Vladimir Seryogin died in a crash).
