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SECTION II MANNED FLIGHTS
SYMBOL OF THE EPOCH
(1) Some dates become symbols of their epoch. One is April 12, 1961, when the spaceship Vostok, piloted by Communist and citizen of the Soviet Union Yuri Gagarin, blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the USSR.
(2) The name of the first spaceman is enshrined in people's memories. By making this first step in the Universe, Earthman and citizen of the Soviet Union Yuri Gagarin represented the whole of mankind. But Soviet people have the right to be especially proud, for it was their fellow-countryman who started the era of manned space flights. Behind the daring and grandeur of Gagarin's flight was the intelligence and labour of thousands of Soviet people. What had been fantasy only yesterday had become reality today. It is a reality whose roots go back to October 1917, when the Soviet Union, the world's first socialist state, came into being.
(3) The Gagarin flight, as all subsequent achievements of Soviet space exploration, demonstrated the organizing and guiding role of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and the inexhaustible potentialities of the socialist social system and of the Soviet economy, science and technology. It was a striking manifestation of the creative power of scientists, engineers and workers, and of the courage, valour and great skill of the cosmonauts. Small wonder that the name of Yuri Gagarin and the country that brought him up now personify socialism, peace and progress. His is one of the prominent names of the Soviet Union. People admire him as a herald of the future, which he had touched. Gagarin's name is given to sons, cities, streets and ships.
(4) In memory of Gagarin and his flight the 61st General Conference' of FAI (Federation Aeronautique Internationale) proclaimed April 12 as International Aviation and Cosmonautics Day and instituted a gold Yuri Gagarin Medal to be awarded to spacemen for outstanding achievements in space exploration for peaceful purposes. It is noteworthy that this award first went to Yuri Gagarin's fellow-cosmonaut and friend Twice Hero of the Soviet Union Georgi Beregovoi for his flight in the new Soyuz-3 spaceship in 1968.
(5) Consistency and purposefulness are a feature of the Soviet programme of exploration in outer space, on the Moon and on planets of the solar system. Every new flight by Soviet manned spaceships and other space vehicles represents a further step in the development of cosmonautics.              --'
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