Heading "According to Archival Documents". Space exploration on Novye Rubezhi newspaper pages

Exactly 60 years ago the person made the first space flight. At 9 hours 7 minutes on April 12, 1961 on air sounded well-known "Went! ", and the East-1 spaceship with Youri Alekseevich Gagarin onboard started from Earth surface. And at ten o'clock 48 minutes the radar of a rocket and antiaircraft division to Saratov Region marked the lander with the first person who has visited a space. As the decree of Presidium of the Supreme Council of the USSR of April 9, 1962 on April 12 it is recognized in the USSR in the Afternoon of astronautics. On April 7, 2011 at meeting UNGA  this date was...