On April 12, 1961 from the spaceport Baikonur for the first time in the world started the " Vostok " spacecraft, with pilot-cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin aboard. For this exploit the Title of Hero of the Soviet Union was appropriated to it, and since April 12, 1962 the first anniversery of Gagarin's flight into space was declared by holiday. This is the Year of Russian Cosmonautics - 2011.
Friday, April 1, 2011
Russia Fetes Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin
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