What Happens to Your Brain When Youâre Hungry. When youâre hungry and your stomach growls, it feels like hunger is coming from your tummy, but your tummy is actually a secondary player in the âhunger game.â Itâs actually your brain that makes you yearn for something to eat, hopefully, something healthy.
First man in space. On 12 April 1961 Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space when he orbited the Earth once during a 108 minute flight. In 1960 Gagarin, a fighter pilot, was shortlisted for the Vostok 1 programme, which built on the success of Sputnik 1 just three years earlier. German Titov was Gagarin's closest rival for selection-both men tried to impress space programme director Sergei Korolev.
In a space agency filled with trailblazers, Sally K. Ride was a pioneer of a different sort. The soft-spoken California physicist broke the gender barrier 29 years ago when she rode to orbit aboard space shuttle Challenger to become America's first woman in space. Sally Ride broke barriers with grace and professionalism â and literally changed the face of America's space program, said NASA Administrator Charles Bolden.