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Cosmonautics Day is celebrated in Russia, since it is on this day in 1961 the first man’s flight took place in space. Soviet cosmonaut, Russian Yuri Gagarin made the world’s first space flight of our planet on a ship Vostok-1, launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Total “astronaut number one “was in space one hundred eight minutes. By today’s standards, this, Of course, a ridiculous achievement, but at that time such a flight became a real sensation for the entire world community.
Since then, every year on April 12, Russia celebrates Day. astronautics. Today, speaking to reporters, the leader of the Communist Party Gennady Zyuganov even said that Cosmonautics Day needs to be done weekend in the Russian Federation. It should be the day when every Russian, every the labor collective would report to the country about its achievements. Well, there’s a rational element in this appeal …
Where the first manned space flight is celebrated
But the anniversary of the first manned space flight is celebrated not only in Russia, and not only in the former Soviet republics, which were involved in this great feat. For example, employees NASA tried to restore performance by this date the Kepler space telescope, which crashed a week ago and even once again frightened scientists that it could completely stop your work. Recall that this is not the first “breakdown” telescope, which carries out its space mission now seven years.
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It is currently at a distance of one hundred and twenty million kilometers from Earth. Recall that the Kepler probe began preparation for observing the center of the Milky Way. It is in this moment and there was a failure in his work. But everything seems to have worked out, another “miraculous salvation” of the spacecraft, I think, will help scientists discover new secrets of the universe.
NASA engineers still can not say with accuracy what has become cause another Kepler malfunction, but they did everything possible to stabilize the state of the probe. As said mission manager Charlie Sobek, his team is still in fully operational, but they are pleased that the dispatchers managed to restore the efficiency of the spacecraft and to coincide with the day of flight of Yuri Gagarin into space.
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