Yuri Gagarin, after graduating from the flight school, wanted to serve in the Far North. The eldest daughter of the first cosmonaut of the planet Elena Gagarina, general director of the State Historical and Cultural Museum-Reserve “Moscow Kremlin”, spoke about this.
According to her, after graduating from the Orenburg school, which at that time was called the Chkalovsk flight school, Yuri Gagarin asked to be sent to serve in the Far North, despite the fact that he was offered to become an instructor.
She explained that Gagarin’s desire to serve in the Arctic was associated with the desire to improve the skills of flying aircraft in difficult weather conditions.
“He always knew better what was best for him and, in the end, for the country. Because researching the technology to which he devoted his life and working on new spacecraft is much more important than being either an instructor or after graduating from the Zhukovsky Academy to engage in scientific work, “Gagarina said on the Vesti Nedeli program of the TV channel. Russia 1” .
On the same day, the head of the American non-governmental organization Planetary Society Bill Nye, speaking at an event dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the first manned flight into space, said that the flight of Yuri Gagarin contributed to the development of many technologies, including the emergence of the Internet.
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