Павильон Космос на ВДНХ, центр «Космонавтика и авиация»

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me to me: you can’t like every picture of yuri gagarin

me *going through the yuri gagarin tag*:

And today, he turns 73.

Happy birthday! 💖🚀🇻🇳

Happy birthday to the first Asian and Vietnamese man in space, Phạm Tuân!! He turns 72 today 💕💕

More than 2 million Syrians have fled to Turkey, driven out by the fighting that erupted in their homeland in 2011. But none can claim an odyssey quite like that of Mohammed Faris.

As Syria’s first and only cosmonaut, Mohammed Faris rocketed into orbit with two Soviet colleagues in 1987. He conducted experiments and photographed his country from space. By the time he returned to Syria, most everyone in the country knew his name.

Yet Faris is now a refugee himself, fleeing to Turkey after speaking out against the government’s efforts to crush the 2011 uprising. He ended up in Istanbul, much better off than most, but a refugee all the same.

Once A National Hero, Syria’s Lone Cosmonaut Is Now A Refugee In Turkey

Photo: Peter Kenyon/NPR

With Valery Bykovsky’s death last month (on the same day as Gagarin’s death), Alexei Leonov and Boris Volynov are the last two remaining cosmonauts from the Air Force Group 1 selection, the first cosmonauts team

Hatta cosmonaut uniform styles--good shit💕💕💕💖👌👌

Russia!!!💕💕💕🇷🇺🇷🇺

JEANS!!!CATS!!!😼👖

Sometimes you wonder where your pants went off …

Oh god...my eyes...🙃😂 i appreciate this...👏

Tbh, even if they aren’t as well-known as the Three Greats (Gagarin, Tereshkova and Leonov), the other Soviet cosmonauts were pretty cute too. Like, Yegorov, Bykovsky, Belyayev, heck, even Titov were all just so huggable-looking! And that’s just from the first original group.

aaaah so true!! 💕

they’re all such cutie pies! 💞