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Samara Самара - 50th Anniversary of the First Manned Flight in Space

Samara city became the venue of the large-scale photo session, dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the first manned space flight. Satellite imagery of the largest square in Europe - the Kuibyshev Square - was carried out during the tele-marathon "Let's go! 50" in early April 2011. Students of Samara universities lined up forming the inscription "Samara-Cosmos-50" ("Самара-Космос-50") with their bodies at the moment, when GeoEye-1 satellite was passing by to take the image of this area. This action organizers are: "Samara" TV and radio company and the Samara Region Government. Center of Space Monitoring of the Samara State Aerospace University and ScanEx RDC were the organizers of this "photo-session". Read More