NASA pays tribute to Gagarin in honor of Cosmonautics Day

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration of the United States (NASA) paid tribute to cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin in honor of Cosmonautics Day. The corresponding message was posted on April 12 on the organization's page on the social network X (ex. Twitter).

"On this International Day of Human Spaceflight, we celebrate the first flight of mankind into space, which was made by Yuri Gagarin in 1961, as well as the first launch of the space shuttle (an American reusable transport spacecraft. — Ed.) in 1981," writes NASA.

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The Russian crew of the International Space Station (ISS), consisting of Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexei Ovchinin, Ivan Wagner and Kirill Peskov, congratulated Russian citizens on Cosmonautics Day on April 12.

In Russia and around the world, on April 12, the greatest achievement of science of the 20th century is celebrated by celebrating Cosmonautics Day. On this day, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin went into space on the Vostok satellite spacecraft. The flight lasted 108 minutes, during which the ship made a free flight around the planet and successfully landed at the designated location — near the village of Smelovka in the Saratov region.