iridaniotter [she/her] to Soviet • 3 months agoThe English website for the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center uses the Soviet TLDexternal-linkmessage-square1 fedilinkarrow-up125file-text
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minus-squaresomeone [comrade/them, they/them]hexbear9·3 months agoYuri Gagarin's office at this research facility is maintained as a memorial to him and to the earliest days of human spaceflight. There are several traditions for anyone flying to space from Baikonur. Signing Yuri's guest book is one of them. Others are to plant a tree at the Cosmonaut Grove, and for everyone flying together to watch the movie White Sun of the Desert the night before launch. link
Yuri Gagarin's office at this research facility is maintained as a memorial to him and to the earliest days of human spaceflight. There are several traditions for anyone flying to space from Baikonur. Signing Yuri's guest book is one of them.
Others are to plant a tree at the Cosmonaut Grove, and for everyone flying together to watch the movie White Sun of the Desert the night before launch.