A young couple sit near the wall of Ilyich of the monument to the Conquerors of Space.The Cosmonautics Museum is one of the largest scientific and historical museums in the world. The history of the museum began in the second half of the 20th century, when in 1964 a monument to the Conquerors of Space appeared on the map of Moscow.The titanium rocket at VDNKh has become a symbol of a qualitative technological leap of its time. The launch of the first artificial Earth satellite, the first living beings and the first man in space became the starting point in world cosmonautics.On the 60th anniversary of the first manned flight into space, tourists came to visit the Museum of Cosmonautics to learn more about the first cosmonaut, the Soviet test pilot Yuri Gagarin.
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