He said, "Let's go!" People and ships" - 11 March 2025, 01:55 AM

This is the name of a large space project launched by Radio Russia on the eve of Cosmonautics Day. This year, April 12th is celebrated with a special feeling. 60 years have passed since the first human flight into space. With his exclamation, “Let’s go!” opened the way for humanity to rise to the stars. About the first cosmonaut of the Earth and what became possible thanks to his flight, in the program "He said "Let's go!" the presenter is told by relatives of Yuri Alekseevich and his colleagues - current cosmonauts. Among the guests of Radio Russia’s “space project” are cosmonauts, and his niece and goddaughter, Yuri Alekseevich, remembers his “home” – her uncle – and she still calls him a goddaughter. He bought her toys and carried them in his arms. About how 25-year-old fighter pilot of naval aviation of the Northern Fleet Yuri Gagarin got into the first cosmonaut detachment and why he became cosmonaut No. 1, says the director of the museum of the Cosmonaut Training Center. About the relationship of Yuri Gagarin and Sergey Pavlovich Korolev – it is in the program, in which the daughter of the chief designer, doctor of medical sciences, professor and his grandson, also doctor of medical sciences, professor, take part. The program "He said "Let's go!" "pre-start" project "Radio Russia" is not limited. Guests of the program were cosmonauts, a member of the cosmonaut detachment, who was a stand-in for Svetlana Savitskaya, the author of books about Yuri Gagarin, who met with him and Anna Timofeevna, the mother of the first cosmonaut - a journalist, a writer. The chronicle of the first space flight, Yuri Gagarin's meeting on Earth, his speeches and subsequent work - is reflected in short - two-minute - headings "You know what a guy he was!" On the eve of the anniversary, the 60th Day of Cosmonautics, they sound several times a day, in the mode of call signs, reminding of the approaching date. – as he tells about his family, about the morning before the launch on Baikonur, about the Earth in a colored halo, how he saw it from space. And, of course, the legendary: I am Cedar. The flight is going well. I feel great. All systems are operating well.”.