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Cosmonautics Day is celebrated online


12.04.2020


Cosmonautics Day is celebrated today, on April 12, in Russia. On this day in 1961, the first man went into space - the Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.

The festive events to celebrate this holiday will take place on October 4 this year. They were postponed for a later date because of the restrictive measures aimed at countering the spread of the coronavirus infection. The holiday will be timed to the anniversary of the launch of the first artificial satellite. 

The #Москвастобой (“Moscow is with you” in Russian) Project has prepared a series of online excursions and lectures. Muscovites and residents of other cities will be able to get acquainted with the works of Tsiolkovsky and the history of space exploration, learn about the preparation of cosmonauts for flight and life on the ISS. The Museum of Cosmonautics, the Moscow Planetarium, and the Cosmonautics and Aviation Center at VDNH exhibition center will present their programs online.

The Cosmonautics Museum invites everyone to join thematic tours. The Moscow Planetarium organizes a virtual tour of the museum and a series of lectures.

In honor of the holiday, the television tower in Nizhny Novgorod will be decorated with an image of a take-off rocket and a portrait of Gagarin.

The North-Western Organization of the Federation of Cosmonautics of Russia organizes a lengthy online broadcast dedicated to the history of space and moon exploration, and space creativity.

The festive stream on the Rafael & Co. online channel will bring together conversations with interesting people and space music. Historians, scientists, test pilots, space painting artists are going to take part in it.

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