Have you ever witnessed a missile launch? Anticipation and
expectation of the sight last much longer than the event itself.
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Here is a set of pictures made by a pilot-cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin during the flight of the 25th
expedition to the International Space Station. Click on the photos to see full scale images.
Categories Culture, Other, Photos, Russian Art, Russian Nature, Russian People, Technology
The space attracts all people with its mystery. And Russians are not an exception. During weekends some of them
construct little aircrafts and launch them into the cosmos instead of ordinary walking or going to cinemas.
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Here are some fantastic
photos made by RosCosmos.
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Practically all young boys dream to become a spaceman, but who has really become? The space topic remains mysterious for us, intriguing and inaccessible even now.
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the first human fly to space there was a solemn event in Zvezdny city that is located in the Moscow region.
Here is a compilation of photos dedicated to the first man in space - Yuri Gagarin. It's not a sin to write about heroes the
second day running, right? All of them were taken in Moscow and show all the joy and love of Russian people to their hero.
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Today is the memorable day. The day of the first human flight to space. But
do we know this first pilot well? Here are some facts from his life.
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Baikonur is the city in Kazakhstan that is famous for its cosmodrome. The Baikonur cosmodrome is the first and largest operational space launch facility in the world. It is located in the
desert steppes of Kazakhstan, near the Aral Sea. It is exactly the place from which 50 years ago the first man flew to the space. Today all the world celebrates this great date.
These science-fiction pictures are the works sent to the "USSR-2061" contest which gave the
possibility to dream of the Soviet Union in 50 years. If it existed, of course.
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This interesting museum is situated in one of the ravelins of the Petropavlovskaya fortress, St.Petersburg. There
in 1932-1933 first Soviet missiles were developed. The museum itself was founded in 1973 by V.P.Glushko.
