Happy Cosmonautics Day: 53 years since the first manned flight into space

Yes, flowers on Mars are not blooming yet, but now humanity is taking some very active steps to make the Moon, Mars and other planets / satellites of the Solar System become home to people.

We will not talk now about why this has not happened yet, but rather recall that 53 years have passed since Yuri Gagarin, on the Vostok ship, started from Baikonur, and went into Earth orbit. 108 minutes that he spent in space on the "East", made history, as well as the whole event.
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As Wikipedia tells us, April 12 “celebrates World Aviation and Cosmonautics Day according to protocol (clause 17) of the 61st General Conference of the International Aviation Federation, held in November 1968 and decided by the Council of the International Aviation Federation on April 30, 1969 to the presentation of the USSR Aviation Sports Federation

In addition, on April 7, 2011, at a special plenary meeting of the UN General Assembly, a resolution was adopted, officially proclaiming April 12 as International Day of Manned Space Flight. More than 60 states have become co-authors of the resolution.

By the way, the question of what to do on this day does not arise, thanks to the excellent post How to celebrate Cosmonautics Day from lozga . Among other things, today is also Saturday, so you can devote almost all your free time to studying the history of space flights, as well as studying the schedule of upcoming events, the purpose of which is to study and explore space.

And here is a video from Roskosmos, with a record of the flight itself and archival data:



PS Well, yes, you can celebrate from 9 hours 7 minutes according to MSK, it was at this time that the "East" was launched :)

PSS The Japanese edition of The Japan Times reports that sakura has blossomed in the Buddhist temple in Gifo Prefecture. Nothing remarkable if it were not for one nuance: the bone from which this sakura was grown, spent 8 months on the ISS.

This bone was taken from a tree at the age of 1250 years, and only it, this bone, sprouted. All the other bones from the old sakura did not grow.

By the way, in just 4 years, the young Sakura has grown by 4 meters, and is now blooming. Sakura usually bloom 10 years after the “birth”, and the “cosmic” Sakura blossomed 4 years later, just in time for Cosmonautics Day :)