| Yuri Gagarin's Hockey Puck | |
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Origin |
Yuri Gagarin |
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Type |
Hockey Puck |
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Effects |
Produces an anti-gravity field |
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Downsides |
None identified |
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Activation |
Spinning |
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Collected by |
Warehouse 13 |
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Section |
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Date of Collection |
April 27, 1986 |
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Origin[]
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968) was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961.
Gagarin became an international celebrity, and was awarded many medals and titles, including Hero of the Soviet Union, the nation's highest honour. Vostok 1 marked his only spaceflight, but he served as backup crew to the Soyuz 1 mission (which ended in a fatal crash, the cause of which is uncertain and subject to conspiracy theories). Gagarin later became deputy training director of the Cosmonaut Training Centre outside Moscow, which was later named after him. Gagarin died in 1968 when the MiG-15 training jet he was piloting crashed.
Yuri was also a avid fan of hockey and would always play during his down time.
Warehouse Use[]
Located near the Air-Space Section, the Suspension Chamber is set up much like a anti-gravity chamber, enabling the operator to suspend and entrap an object in a energy field generated by the puck. Working like a turbine, the puck is spun in circle around a large conduit below the ensnared item and then the energy is pumped into four coils that trap the item in a bubble of anti-gravity energy. The field surrounding the item also stops it from moving in any direction as it pushes from every angle. The chamber is mainly used for artifacts that must not touch another object for fear of activation or self-destruction.