Day of astronautics

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On April 12, 1961 in Soviet Union the first-ever space ship satellite "East" with the person onboard is put to orbit round Earth. The pilot-astronaut of the space ship satellite "East" is the citizen Soviet Union the pilot the major Youri Alekseevich Gagarin Exactly 60 years ago, on April 12, 1961 life of mankind was divided on "to" and "after", and that photo Youri Alekseevich Gagarin in a space suit was forever pressed in memory of each Soviet citizen and the Russian. The first flight of the person in space — more than 60 years ago many aspired to it...