ASU college foreign students visited Barnaul Planetarium

On 12 April ASU College foreign students visited Barnaul Planetarium together with their educator T.A. Burkova. The event was confined to the Cosmonautics Day. During the excursion to the planetarium the students learned more about the history and development of Russian cosmonautics.

The foreign students watched the fulldome multimedia program called “The Cosmic Success” dedicated to the first heroic human steps in space research: from launching first space satellite to piloted flights to the Moon and automatic observation satellites.

On 12 April 1961 is the day of space era beginning: the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin made the first manned space flight aboard Vostok spacecraft. The flight along the Earth’s orbit took 2 hours. Since that day 12 April is considered to be a Russian national holiday – the Cosmonautics Day.