Dennis Tito: the first space tourist

Space billionaire lover. With these data had many ballots Dennis Tito to become the first space tourist. He fulfilled his dream on April 28, 2001 after paying (or not) astronomical amount of money for a ticket to board the Soyuz for one week. It was not easy to get to that moment. The two major powers in space, the United States and Russia, lived a particular Cold War Space: NASA apparently opposed to the trip for safety reasons but the Russian space tourists saw a way to cover the decimated economy in the sector space.

The 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster

It was the worst nuclear accident in history, but the world ignored their existence until two days later. The morning of April 26, 1986 an explosion in reactor number 4 of the Chernobyl NPP (Ukraine) caused the death of 31 people and thousands of evacuees. Many more would die later, hundreds of thousands, the result of radiation still present in the body of thousands of people.

The first information published La Vanguardia data on the nuclear disaster of April 29. Then he spoke of a "radiation leak" that had been victims (not saying how many) and had come to countries like Finland, Sweden and Denmark ... and ensured that the population was not endangered. But the truth is that the Soviet secrecy and reluctance to report difficult to make a genuine assessment of the severity of the explosion.