12. April is the day of cosmonautics
12. April, 1961, in 9 hours 7 minutes moscow time (6 hours and 7 minutes world time) started Yuri Gagarin spacecraft Vostok 1 from the baikonur Cosmodrome. At the time of the launch he was 27 years old.
Flight lasted 108 minutes, and the spacecraft and Gagarin landed near the village Smelovka lying near the town of Engels in the Saratov area (each separately, because at a height of about 7 km was blasted hatch hatch and astronaut was catapulted and landed by parachute separately)..
12. April, 1961, in 9 hours 7 minutes moscow time (6 hours and 7 minutes world time) started Yuri Gagarin spacecraft Vostok 1 from the baikonur Cosmodrome. At the time of the launch he was 27 years old.
Flight lasted 108 minutes, and the spacecraft and Gagarin landed near the village Smelovka lying near the town of Engels in the Saratov area (each separately, because at a height of about 7 km was blasted hatch hatch and astronaut was catapulted and landed by parachute separately)..