Flight instruction of the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became public. The document published “Gazeta.ru”.
“Instructions for the use and control of the East-3A spacecraft of the East-3A spacecraft is a set of algorithms, starting with pre-trap and before returning to Earth. In particular, even the order of the vestments to the spacecraft is described: the cosmonaut should” cover the legs into the right And the left pants, cover your hands in the sleeve and dress Hermoshl. “
The same cosmonaut document was prescribed to tune in to 2 of the Moscow Radio program and take food at certain points after entering orbit.
Original Instructions are stored in the fund number 1 of the CPC of Management Documents, where from June 2009 and to this day only separate documents are declassified, the publication notes.
On April 10, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation published secret documents relating to the first cosmonauts of the USSR. Historical artifacts – photos, certificates, flight task and other archival documents – the Ministry of Defense were disclosed to the 60th anniversary of the first flight of a person in space. In the section you can see photos of Yuri Gagarin and other members of the first squad of the cosmonauts – German Titov, Alexey Leonov. Also on the site posted information about the head of the preparation of the first cosmonauts Nikolae Kamanin, the instructor of the first pilots-cosmonauts, Mark Gallai, the pilot-Frontovik Georgy shore and others.
Previously, the deughter of the pilot, CEO of the State Museum-Reserve “Moscow Kremlin” Elena Gagarin said that the risks of the first cosmonaut perished in space were more than 50 percent. Such a point of view, according to her, adhered to the chief designer of rocket and space technology Sergey Korolev.
The first flight of a person in space took place 60 years ago, April 12, 1961. It lasted 108 minutes. The carrier rocket “East” with the ship “Vostok-1”, on board which was Yuri Gagarin, made a turn around the Earth and landed in the Saratov region.