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Below are some interesting facts about the event.
World Aviation and Cosmonautics Day.

The holiday was established by the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on April 9, 1962. Since 1968, the national Cosmonautics Day has received official worldwide recognition following the establishment of World Aviation and Cosmonautics Day.

The training program for the first cosmonaut group was extremely rigorous. All pilots had to undergo a rigorous medical selection, tests in a centrifuge, a pressure chamber, a vibration stand, a rotating chair, and also pass tests for complete isolation in the so-called "chamber of silence" measuring approximately three steps long and one and a half steps wide. Yuri Gagarin, along with everyone else, successfully passed the test from July 26 to August 5, 1960.

The launch was carried out from the first launch complex of the Baikonur Cosmodrome. The Vostok 8K72K launch vehicle launched the Vostok spacecraft, piloted by Yuri Gagarin, the first cosmonaut of the Soviet Union, into low Earth orbit. Gherman Titov served as Gagarin's backup, available to replace him at any time before launch. A reserve cosmonaut, Grigory Nelyubov, was also appointed as a backup.

The Vostok spacecraft was launched into orbit with the following parameters: inclination of 64.95 degrees, orbital period of 89.34 minutes, minimum distance from the Earth's surface of 181 kilometers, and maximum distance of 327 kilometers.

The first cosmonaut's flight lasted 1 hour and 48 minutes. After one orbit around the Earth, the spacecraft's descent module landed in the Saratov region. At an altitude of several kilometers, Gagarin ejected and made a soft landing by parachute not far from the descent module.

The planet's first cosmonaut was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union, and the day of his flight became a national holiday – Cosmonautics Day, beginning April 12, 1962.

The planet's first cosmonaut died on March 27, 1968, during a training flight in adverse weather conditions. According to the official version, the MiG-15, piloted by Yuri Gagarin and Colonel Seregin, commander of the training regiment of the Cosmonaut Training Center, went into a tailspin, and allegedly did not have enough altitude to recover. The plane crashed in a forest near the village of Novoselovo in the Kirzhach district of the Vladimir region.

Informationtaken from: vampodarok.com