April 12 is Cosmonautics Day in Russia. On this day in 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, aboard the Vostok-1 spacecraft, made the world’s first orbital flight around the planet Earth. The flight in near-Earth space lasted 108 minutes. Let’s familiarize ourselves with the vocabulary relevant for this day:
- космос = space
- космонавт = astronaut
- космический корабль = spaceship
- ракета = rocket
- орбита = orbit
- космический полёт = space flight
- Земля = Earth
- Луна = Moon
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