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At the air base Engels there is a Museum of Long-Range Aviation that was opened in September, 6th, 2000. A part of exhibits are in a building, planes are under open sky. It's not easy

to get there like to any interesting place. The museum is located on the territory of a working military unit and to enter it you have to undergo a difficult quest.

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The first cosmonauts of the USSR (Yuri Gagarin, Alexey Leonov, Boris

Volynov, Victor Gorbatko) having rest in Dolgoprudny in August 19th, 1963.

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Half a year ago the second Kazakhstan telecommunications satellite "KazSat-2" was launched from site #200 of Baikonur with help of a launch vehicle

"Proton-2". What has been happening to the satellite all this time? In what condition is it now? How and from where is it controlled?

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On 12th April, 1961, a spacehip "Vostok" with a pilot-cosmonaut Yuri A. Gagarin aboard made its first flight into space. "Vostok" was launched from the space launching site

"Baikonur", at 9:07 of Moscow time. The space ship made a single circle around the Earth and landed at 10:55 near Smelovka village, the Saratov region.

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"Let's conquer space!" For your attention is a set of

nice posters of the Soviet Space Program 1958-1963.

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The main Soviet events of 1961

were described in LIFE magazine.

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According to Head of the Russian Federal Space Agency V. Popovkin, it is likely that Russian cosmonauts will land on the Moon by 2020. Citizens of the Russian Federation, engineers or doctors by education, may apply for the program to be selected for the

expedition. The Russian Federal Space Agency also announced its plans to build research stations on Mars. All that is yet to happen in future so why not look back into the past to see what space programs the Soviet Union and Russia had.

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This astrophysical center of Novosibirsk is the largest planetarium in Siberia and the forth largest planetarium in Russia. It includes two astrophysical towers

where they are going to install telescopes shortly (including a solar one), a Foucault tower and a TV studio. The planetarium opened in 2012.

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Yuri Gagarin was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who was the first human to journey into outer

space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on April 12th, 1961.

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Nikolai Rerikh, a Russian painter, philosopher and traveler, has never been to Kamchatka. Nevertheless, the photos

presented in the Schelkovskaya Art Gallery are called 'Kamchatka and Rerikh'. Let us find out the reason for that.

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