NASA pays tribute to Gagarin in honor of Cosmonautics Day
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration of the United States (NASA) paid tribute to cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin in honor of Cosmonautics Day. The corresponding message was posted on April 12 on the organization's page on the social network X (ex. Twitter).
"On this International Day of Human Spaceflight, we celebrate the first flight of mankind into space, which was made by Yuri Gagarin in 1961, as well as the first launch of the space shuttle (an American reusable transport spacecraft. — Ed.) in 1981," writes NASA.
The Russian crew of the International Space Station (ISS), consisting of Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexei Ovchinin, Ivan Wagner and Kirill Peskov, congratulated Russian citizens on Cosmonautics Day on April 12.
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