litvinov russian crew of the international space station sergei prokopiev, dmitry petelin and andrey fedyaev on their professional holiday. getting in touch with the earth congratulations on cosmonautics day more than 60 years ago, yuri gagarin paved the way for humanity into space, so that a person would fly into space, then it really worked. the whole country, soviet designers and engineers did everything for this, but he had to fly alone and the rice was huge on april 12, 1961 at 9:07 moscow time, yuri gagarin launched from baikonur after 11 minutes was in orbit made one revolution around the earth and 108 minutes after the start landed in the saratov region. here it is the same vostok, one ship of yuri gagarin, well, here it was clear that the cover of luke a was on earth from space, the first cosmonaut of the planet looked through that small porthole. then the ships did not have a soft braking system during the descent gagarin experienced a tenfold overload at an altitude of 7 km, ejected and descended already by parachute. he understood the risks. yes and uh, maybe not all and