Exhibition “OUR GAGARIN”
Russian House ONLINE«OUR GAGARIN» To the Day of Cosmonautics To the 90th anniversary of the birth of the first cosmonaut of the planet Yuri Gagarin DEDICATED TO THE FIRST HUMAN SPACE FLIGHT Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was the first man in the history of humanity who, on the board of the Soviet spacecraft “Vostok”, made a flight to space. Gagarin's flight lasted 108 minutes. One minute before the start the first cosmonaut hummed "Letite, golubi, letite" (Fly, Doves, Fly). Several seconds later Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer Sergei Pavlovich Korolev said “LIFT-OFF!” and Gagarin uttered his famous phrase “Poekhali” (“Let’s go!”). “Cedar” [...]
