Australia to host online festival to mark Gagarin’s flight 60th anniversary

Australia will hold on Monday the online festival dubbed 60 Year in Space dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the first manned space flight carried out by Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.
The program of the festival includes online meetings with Russian cosmonauts; a space quiz “What? Where? When?”; a music show about space performed by famous artists; a panel with experts in the field of astronomy and space technology and other activities.
As part of the festival, there will be an international children’s video contest “First flight into space.” All the participants will be awarded with international certificates, while the winners will receive diplomas and prizes. Authors of the best works will be able to join the “60 Year in Space” online broadcast.
On April 12, 1961, Gagarin pronounced his famous “Poyekhali!” (Let’s Go!) as the Vostok spacecraft lifted off the ground, taking the first person ever to space. After orbiting the Earth once, the re-entry module landed on the territory of what was then the Soviet Union.

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