Prime Minister Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting of the Organising Committee to Prepare and Hold the 2011 Celebrations of the 50th Anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's Space Flight at the Mission Control Center
“A major celebration of the first manned spaceflight’s anniversary is an opportunity to express our deep respect for industry’s veterans – the people whose hard work and scientific and engineering expertise have allowed Russia to become a great space power. They laid the foundations for those traditions, which today allow us to be among the leaders in the global space industry”.
Vladimir Putin At a meeting of the Organising Committee to Prepare and Hold the 2011 Celebrations of the 50th Anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's Space Flight
