As Day of astronautics to Russian Federation and in the world] is celebrate

The first flight in the history of mankind in space was made on April 12, 1961 by the Soviet space pilot Youri Alekseevich Gagarin. This name became a symbol of a new era – an era of space exploration, and day received the holiday status – Day of astronautics. What history of a holiday In 1962 the Soviet government founded Day of astronautics, and in 1995 already to new Russian Federation this holiday was fixed by the federal law on days of military glory. In 1968 the whole world joined the Soviet celebration – the World day of aircraft and astronautics was founded. Piloted flights, the foundation to which Youri Alekseevich Gagarin laid...