Apr
12
We are the first for ever!
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Today Russia celebrate Day of astronautics!
On 12 April 1961, Gagarin became the first human to travel into space in Vostok 1 and return.
Monument to “Subjugators of space”. It is opened on October, 4th, 1964. Height of 100 meters, weight of 250 tons, it is reveted by titanic panels thickness of 1.5 mm. In the basis the Memorial museum of astronautics is located.
