Rounding up the week’s top tech news, from the OnePlus Ace launch date to the Vivo X Fold, and a space conspiracy theory.
⚡ Welcome to The Weekly Authority, the Android Authority newsletter that breaks down the top Android and tech news from the week. The 190th edition here, with the OnePlus Ace launch date, the Vivo X Fold, and a space conspiracy theory… Turns out, this was an important week in space history, with not one, not two, but three significant events, and a conspiracy theory. First up, on April 12, 1961,27-year-old Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space, orbiting the earth aboard Soviet spacecraft Vostok 1. His flight lasted one hour and 48 minutes before re-entering the atmosphere. It would be his only flight, as he died in 1968 when a plane he was piloting crashed near Moscow. Here’s what you (probably) didn’t know about the first man in space: Gagarin hadn’t always planned on becoming an astronaut — he’d trained as a steelworker. His words on takeoff: “Poyehali!” (Let’s go). The rocket was an R-7 or “Semyorka” adapted missile which carried the “Vostok” (meaning “East”) spacecraft. He may not actually have been the first man in space. Wait, what? Rumors abounded that a cosmonaut had beaten Gagarin into space five days earlier, on April 7. The man in question was supposedly test pilot Vladimir Ilyushin.
