Dear machine manufactures, congratulations on the World Aviation and Astronautics Day!
We wish you a cosmic and high level in business, bold ideas, big and important discoveries!
We also wish active development of domestic rocket production and space exploration only for peaceful purposes.
In honor of this truly national holiday, we invite you to remember the space records of our Motherland.
On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first person on Earth to be in space.
25 years is the age of the youngest astronaut. It was German Titov, who set off on his first flight on August 6-7, 1961 on the Vostok-2 spacecraft.
The first multi-seat spacecraft - "Voskhod" (USSR), on which on October 12-13, 1964 (24 hours 17 minutes), a crew of three astronauts - Vladimir Komarov, Boris Egorov, Konstantin Feoktistov.
The first spacewalk on March 18, 1965 was also performed by our compatriot, USSR pilot-astronaut Alexei Leonov, who flew on the Voskhod-2 spacecraft together with Pavel Belyaev. He spent 12 minutes 9 seconds outside the spaceship.
The first docking of manned spacecraft took place on January 16, 1969. Docking was carried out manually between two spacecraft Soyuz-4 and Soyuz-5. The ships were docked for 4 hours and 35 minutes. "Soyuz-4" was piloted by Vladimir Shatalov, the crew of "Soyuz-5" consisted of 3 pilots: Boris Volynov, Evgeny Khrunov, Alexey Eliseev.