@optimist 12 April 2021 more from that month

Would you like to go into space? Did you know that today marks the 60th anniversary of the day when man first flew into space? On April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin took off from the Baikonur cosmodrome on the Vostok-1 spacecraft and completed the world's first orbital flyby of planet Earth. The flight in near-earth space lasted 108 minutes. At that time, people all over the world thought that space flights were waiting for us in the 21st century, but all this remained only in dreams. In the photo, Yuri Gagarin. On the helmet there is an inscription - USSR (USSR is my country which is no longer on the map). #Photography