From patriotic songs blaring on the metro to parties on the International Space Station, Russia proudly celebrated on Tuesday 50 years since rocketing Yuri Gagarin into the first human orbit。
In a video link with space, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev told astronauts aboard the orbital station that space exploration remained Russia's "priority"。
"In those 50 years, we absolutely can't imagine life without space, without your flights," Medvedev told the crew from Russia's Mission Control Centre, named after the legendary father of the Soviet space programme Sergei Korolyov。
"Space is our priority."
Space station Commander Dmitry Kondratyev said his current six-person US, Russian and European crew would celebrate the holiday from the "front lines" in weightlessness。
"This flight stirred the whole world and showed what humanity was capable of," said veteran Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, 76, who completed the first space walk in 1965.
"He invited us all into space," Leonov told at Kremlin hall filled with some of the world's most well-loved space icons, citing a tribute from the first man on the moon, US astronaut Neil Armstrong, to Gagarin。
Since Gagarin's epic journey into the unknown 50 years ago, some 500 people have followed him into space。
"If Yuri Gagarin had not made this flight I would not have flown to the moon," said US astronaut Thomas Stafford, commander on the first US lunar landing in 1969.
俄羅斯本周二高調(diào)慶祝人類歷史上首位宇航員尤里•加加林太空飛行50周年。地鐵中響起愛(ài)國(guó)歌曲,國(guó)際空間站也舉辦派對(duì)慶祝。
俄羅斯總統(tǒng)米特里•梅德韋杰夫在與國(guó)際空間站視頻連線時(shí)告訴軌道空間站的宇航員,太空探索仍是俄羅斯的“重中之重”。
梅德韋杰夫告訴俄羅斯宇航控制中心的工作人員:“在過(guò)去50年里,我們完全無(wú)法設(shè)想沒(méi)有太空探索、沒(méi)有你們的航天飛行的生活!边@座宇航控制中心是以前蘇聯(lián)載人航天開(kāi)創(chuàng)者謝爾蓋•帕夫洛維奇的名字命名的。
梅德韋杰夫說(shuō):“我們要優(yōu)先發(fā)展航天事業(yè)!
空間站指揮官米特里•康德拉特耶夫稱,分別來(lái)自美國(guó)、俄羅斯和歐洲的六位航天員將在無(wú)重的“最前線”慶祝這一天。
前蘇聯(lián)宇航員阿列克謝•列昂諾夫說(shuō):“加加里的首次太空飛行震驚了全球,展示出人類的巨大能量。”列昂諾夫在1965年首次完成了太空行走,現(xiàn)年76歲,已經(jīng)退休。
列昂諾夫引述登月第一人、美國(guó)宇航員尼爾˙阿姆斯特朗稱贊加加林的話說(shuō):“他把人類領(lǐng)進(jìn)了太空!碑(dāng)時(shí)列昂諾夫正坐在克林姆林宮的大廳里,大廳中掛滿了世界上最可愛(ài)的太空?qǐng)D標(biāo)。
自從加加林50年前歷史性的太空之旅后,已有大約500名宇航員進(jìn)行過(guò)太空探索。
1969年美國(guó)登月計(jì)劃指揮官、美國(guó)宇航員托馬斯•斯塔福德說(shuō):“如果尤里•加加林沒(méi)有進(jìn)行首次太空飛行,我可能也沒(méi)有飛去過(guò)月球!
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