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RUSSIA-ST.PETERSBURG-COSMONAUTICS DAY

(240415) -- ST.PETERSBURG, April 15, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Teenagers prepare for rocket model launching in St. Petersburg, Russia, April 14, 2024. A rocket model launch event was held here in celebration of Russia's Cosmonautics Day, which commemorates the first manned spaceflight on April 12, 1961 by Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. (Photo by Irina Motina/Xinhua)

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RUSSIA-ST.PETERSBURG-COSMONAUTICS DAY

(240415) -- ST.PETERSBURG, April 15, 2024 (Xinhua) -- People prepare for rocket model launching in St. Petersburg, Russia, April 14, 2024. A rocket model launch event was held here in celebration of Russia's Cosmonautics Day, which commemorates the first manned spaceflight on April 12, 1961 by Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. (Photo by Irina Motina/Xinhua)

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RUSSIA-ST.PETERSBURG-COSMONAUTICS DAY

(240415) -- ST.PETERSBURG, April 15, 2024 (Xinhua) -- People watch rocket model launching in St. Petersburg, Russia, April 14, 2024. A rocket model launch event was held here in celebration of Russia's Cosmonautics Day, which commemorates the first manned spaceflight on April 12, 1961 by Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. (Photo by Irina Motina/Xinhua)

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RUSSIA-ST.PETERSBURG-COSMONAUTICS DAY

(240415) -- ST.PETERSBURG, April 15, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Children prepare for rocket model launching in St. Petersburg, Russia, April 14, 2024. A rocket model launch event was held here in celebration of Russia's Cosmonautics Day, which commemorates the first manned spaceflight on April 12, 1961 by Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. (Photo by Irina Motina/Xinhua)

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RUSSIA-ST.PETERSBURG-COSMONAUTICS DAY

(240415) -- ST.PETERSBURG, April 15, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Children watch rocket model launching in St. Petersburg, Russia, April 14, 2024. A rocket model launch event was held here in celebration of Russia's Cosmonautics Day, which commemorates the first manned spaceflight on April 12, 1961 by Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. (Photo by Irina Motina/Xinhua)

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RUSSIA-ST.PETERSBURG-COSMONAUTICS DAY

(240415) -- ST.PETERSBURG, April 15, 2024 (Xinhua) -- People watch rocket model launching in St. Petersburg, Russia, April 14, 2024. A rocket model launch event was held here in celebration of Russia's Cosmonautics Day, which commemorates the first manned spaceflight on April 12, 1961 by Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. (Photo by Irina Motina/Xinhua)

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RUSSIA-ST.PETERSBURG-COSMONAUTICS DAY

(240415) -- ST.PETERSBURG, April 15, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Children watch rocket model launching in St. Petersburg, Russia, April 14, 2024. A rocket model launch event was held here in celebration of Russia's Cosmonautics Day, which commemorates the first manned spaceflight on April 12, 1961 by Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. (Photo by Irina Motina/Xinhua)

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RUSSIA-ST.PETERSBURG-COSMONAUTICS DAY

(240415) -- ST.PETERSBURG, April 15, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Children watch rocket model launching in St. Petersburg, Russia, April 14, 2024. A rocket model launch event was held here in celebration of Russia's Cosmonautics Day, which commemorates the first manned spaceflight on April 12, 1961 by Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. (Photo by Irina Motina/Xinhua)

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Russia's St. Petersburg marks Int'l Day of Human Space Flight with rocket model launch

STORY: Russia's St. Petersburg marks Int'l Day of Human Space Flight with rocket model launch SHOOTING TIME: April 14, 2024 DATELINE: April 15, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:06 LOCATION: ST. PETERSBURG, Russia CATEGORY: SCIENCE SHOTLIST: 1. various of the rocket model launch event in St. Petersburg STORYLINE: The Russian city of St. Petersburg hosted its 36th annual rocket model launch event on Sunday, in celebration of the International Day of Human Space Flight, which is also called Cosmonautics Day in Russia. About 100 rocket models built by children were launched during the event. Observed annually on April 12, the International Day of Human Space Flight commemorates the date in 1961 when Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin carried out the first-ever human space flight. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from St. Petersburg, Russia. (XHTV)

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Expo' 70: Exhibition view of the Soviet Pavilion

A photograph of the Vostok spacecraft and Yuriy Gagarin on display in the Soviet Pavilion at Expo'70. ==Date: September 13, 1970, Place: Suita City, Osaka

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Snow and ice festival held in Moscow

STORY: Snow and ice festival held in Moscow DATELINE: Jan. 16, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:03 LOCATION: Moscow CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the snow and ice festival in Muzeon Park in Moscow STORYLINE: A snow and ice festival is held at Moscow's Muzeon Park. The festival presents ice figures made by masters from different parts of Russia and neighboring countries. Along the central alley of the park stand sculptures of important persons of Russia, including Yuri Gagarin, Alexander Pushkin, and Peter the Great among others. Also presented are various famous places of interests in Russia: the Bolshoi Theater, St. Basil's Cathedral, Lake Baikal, Peterhof and many more. The main sculpture is the castle of wonders with multi-level ice slides. The festival will last until Jan. 28. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Moscow. (XHTV)

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RUSSIA-MOSCOW-COLD WEATHER

(230106) -- MOSCOW, Jan. 6, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Steam from a power plant rises above a monument to Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin in Moscow, Russia, Jan. 6, 2023. Local low temperature hit minus 22 degrees Celsius on Thursday. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko Jr/Xinhua)

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Astronauts with Olympic torch

MOSCOW, Japan - Astronauts (from L) Koichi Wakata of Japan, Mikhail Tyurin of Russia and Richard Mastracchio of the United States hold, during a press conference at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center near Moscow on Oct. 22, 2013, a Sochi Winter Olympics torch to be taken into space. The three astronauts will travel to the International Space Station on a Soyuz spacecraft in November 2013.

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Astronauts bound for ISS

MOSCOW, Russia - (From L) Astronauts Richard Mastracchio of the United States, Koichi Wakata of Japan and Mikhail Tyurin of Russia hold a press conference at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in the suburbs of Moscow on Aug. 12, 2013. They will head to the International Space Station on a Soyuz spacecraft in November 2013.

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Astronaut Hoshide offers flowers at Gagarin's grave

MOSCOW, Russia - Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide bows after offering flowers at the grave of Yuri Gagarin, who became the first person in space in 1961, in Moscow on June 22, 2012, ahead of his mission to the International Space Station from July 2012.

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Astronauts offer flowers at Gagarin's grave

MOSCOW, Russia - (from L) Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, U.S. astronaut Sunita Williams and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko pose for photos at Red Square in Moscow on June 22, 2012, before offering flowers at the grave of Yuri Gagarin, who became the first person in space in 1961. They three will board a Soyuz spacecraft to head to the International Space Station in July 2012.

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Astronauts who will stay aboard ISS

MOSCOW, Russia - (From L to R) Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, NASA astronaut Sunita Williams and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko shake hands at a press conference at Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center near Moscow on June 22, 2012, ahead of their mission to the International Space Station from mid-July.

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Japanese astronaut Hoshide

MOSCOW, Russia - Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide is pictured during a press conference at Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center near Moscow on Feb. 28, 2012, ahead of the launch later this year of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft that will carry him and two other astronauts to the International Space Station.

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Japanese astronaut Hoshide

MOSCOW, Russia - Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide takes part in a training session at Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center near Moscow on Feb. 28, 2012, ahead of the launch later this year of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft that will carry him and two other astronauts to the International Space Station.

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3 astronauts at Russian training center

MOSCOW, Russia - (From L to R) Astronauts Sunita Williams of the United States, Yuri Malenchenko of Russia and Akihiko Hoshide of Japan are pictured in front of a Soyuz training module at Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center near Moscow on Feb. 28, 2012, ahead of the launch later this year of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft that will carry them to the International Space Station.

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Astronaut Furukawa in Russia

MOSCOW, Russia - Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa (L front) poses for photos with astronauts from the United States and Russia in front of a statue of cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin at the Yuri Gagarin cosmonaut training center at Star City in suburban Moscow on Dec. 15, 2011.

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Astronaut Furukawa in Russia

MOSCOW, Russia - Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa holds a press conference at the Yuri Gagarin cosmonaut training center at Star City in suburban Moscow on Dec. 15, 2011.

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Astronauts in Moscow

MOSCOW, Russia - (From L) U.S. astronaut Michael Fossum, Russian cosmonaut Sergey Volkov and Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa shake hands at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in the suburbs of Moscow on May 16, 2011. The three will lift off in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on June 8 to stay at the International Space Station for about five and a half months, with Furukawa serving as a flight engineer on his first space mission.

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Japanese astronaut Furukawa

MOSCOW, Russia - Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa (L) and his fellow astronauts pose for photos in the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center on the outskirts of Moscow on May 12, 2011. They began a two-day final examination the same day to be formally tapped as members of a team to stay at the International Space Station from June.

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Japanese astronaut Furukawa

MOSCOW, Russia - Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa (L) and his fellow astronauts pose for photos in the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center on the outskirts of Moscow on May 12, 2011. They began a two-day final examination the same day to be formally tapped as members of a team to stay at the International Space Station from June.

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Astronaut Furukawa training in Moscow

MOSCOW, Russia - Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa takes part in training at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonauts Training Center in a suburb of Moscow on April 13, 2011. Furukawa, who is scheduled to stay at the International Space Station from June, said at a press conference on the same day that he would like to directly communicate with people affected by the March 11 quake and tsunami disaster in Japan from space.

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Astronaut Furukawa in Moscow

MOSCOW, Russia - Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa attends a press conference at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonauts Training Center in a suburb of Moscow on April 13, 2011. Furukawa, who is scheduled to stay at the International Space Station from June, said he would like to directly communicate with people affected by the March 11 quake and tsunami disaster in Japan from space.

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Astronaut Noguchi in Russia

MOSCOW, Russia - (From L) Astronauts T.J. Creamer of the United States, Oleg Kotov of Russia and Soichi Noguchi of Japan offer flowers in front of a statue of Yuri Gagarin at Star City in a suburb of Moscow on June 24, 2010. The astronauts returned to Earth aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft in early June.

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Astronaut Noguchi in Russia

MOSCOW, Russia - (From L) Astronauts Soichi Noguchi of Japan, Oleg Kotov of Russia and T.J. Creamer of the United States pose for photos in front of a statue of Yuri Gagarin at Star City in a suburb of Moscow on June 24, 2010. The astronauts returned to Earth aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft in early June.

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Astronaut Noguchi trains outside Moscow for space flight

MOSCOW, Russia - Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi, who is scheduled to stay on the International Space Station for six months, allows the media a glimpse of his training regimen at the Gagarin Cosmonauts Training Center in suburban Moscow on Aug. 21. A Russian Soyuz space capsule will carry Noguchi into space in December.

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Wakata in final training in Russia for space station stay

MOSCOW, Russia - Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata wears a spacesuit at the Gagarin cosmonaut training center near Moscow on Nov. 17 as he began final training to prepare for his scheduled three-month stay aboard the International Space Station beginning in February next year.

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Russian crew of ISS celebrates Cosmonautics Day

STORY: Russian crew of ISS celebrates Cosmonautics Day DATELINE: April 13, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:11 LOCATION: Moscow CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the Russian crew from the International Space Station STORYLINE: The Russian crew from the International Space Station (ISS) celebrated Cosmonautics Day, a day to commemorate the first manned space flight by Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. "His (Yuri Gagarin's) flight was the pinnacle of the selfless labor of many specialists, workers, engineers and designers, and demonstrated to the whole world the superiority of domestic science and technology," said cosmonaut Denis Matveev. His colleague Sergei Korsakov also thanked all those who work "for the benefit of space exploration." On April 12, 1961, the Vostok-1 launch vehicle delivered Yuri Gagarin into Earth's orbit. In 2011, the UN General Assembly adopted this date as the International Day of Human Space Flight. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Moscow. (XHTV)

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Japanese entrepreneur Maezawa ahead of ISS launch

Japanese entrepreneur Yusaku Maezawa (R) participates in training at the Yu.A. Gagarin Research & Test Cosmonaut Training Center in the suburbs of Moscow on Oct. 14, 2021, for his trip to the International Space Station in December. (Pool photo)

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Wakata in final training in Russia for space station stay

MOSCOW, Russia - Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata wears a spacesuit at the Gagarin cosmonaut training center near Moscow on Nov. 17 as he began final training to prepare for his scheduled three-month stay aboard the International Space Station beginning in February next year. (Kyodo)

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Japanese astronaut Yui ready for space mission

Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui leaves the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center outside Moscow on July 10, 2015, for the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan prior to his July 23 departure for the International Space Station with Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko and U.S. astronaut Kjell Lindgren. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese astronaut Yui ready for space mission

Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui (R) meets with reporters at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center outside Moscow on July 10, 2015, before leaving for the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in preparation for his July 23 departure for the International Space Station with Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko (L) and U.S. astronaut Kjell Lindgren. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese astronaut Yui says he is ready for space mission

Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui attends a press conference at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center outside Moscow on July 8, 2015. Prior to his July 23 departure to the International Space Station. Yui said, "Everything is ready. I would like to produce results." (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Astronaut Noguchi in Russia

MOSCOW, Russia - (From L) Astronauts T.J. Creamer of the United States, Oleg Kotov of Russia and Soichi Noguchi of Japan offer flowers in front of a statue of Yuri Gagarin at Star City in a suburb of Moscow on June 24, 2010. The astronauts returned to Earth aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft in early June. (Kyodo)

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Astronaut Noguchi in Russia

MOSCOW, Russia - (From L) Astronauts Soichi Noguchi of Japan, Oleg Kotov of Russia and T.J. Creamer of the United States pose for photos in front of a statue of Yuri Gagarin at Star City in a suburb of Moscow on June 24, 2010. The astronauts returned to Earth aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft in early June. (Kyodo)

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Astronauts in Moscow

MOSCOW, Russia - (From L) U.S. astronaut Michael Fossum, Russian cosmonaut Sergey Volkov and Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa shake hands at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in the suburbs of Moscow on May 16, 2011. The three will lift off in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on June 8 to stay at the International Space Station for about five and a half months, with Furukawa serving as a flight engineer on his first space mission. (Kyodo)

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Japanese astronaut Furukawa

MOSCOW, Russia - Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa (L) and his fellow astronauts pose for photos in the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center on the outskirts of Moscow on May 12, 2011. They began a two-day final examination the same day to be formally tapped as members of a team to stay at the International Space Station from June. (Kyodo)

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Japanese astronaut Furukawa

MOSCOW, Russia - Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa (L) and his fellow astronauts pose for photos in the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center on the outskirts of Moscow on May 12, 2011. They began a two-day final examination the same day to be formally tapped as members of a team to stay at the International Space Station from June. (Kyodo)

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Astronaut Furukawa in Moscow

MOSCOW, Russia - Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa attends a press conference at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonauts Training Center in a suburb of Moscow on April 13, 2011. Furukawa, who is scheduled to stay at the International Space Station from June, said he would like to directly communicate with people affected by the March 11 quake and tsunami disaster in Japan from space. (Kyodo)

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Astronaut Furukawa training in Moscow

MOSCOW, Russia - Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa takes part in training at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonauts Training Center in a suburb of Moscow on April 13, 2011. Furukawa, who is scheduled to stay at the International Space Station from June, said at a press conference on the same day that he would like to directly communicate with people affected by the March 11 quake and tsunami disaster in Japan from space. (Kyodo)

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Japanese astronaut Hoshide

MOSCOW, Russia - Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide is pictured during a press conference at Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center near Moscow on Feb. 28, 2012, ahead of the launch later this year of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft that will carry him and two other astronauts to the International Space Station. (Kyodo)

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Japanese astronaut Hoshide

MOSCOW, Russia - Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide takes part in a training session at Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center near Moscow on Feb. 28, 2012, ahead of the launch later this year of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft that will carry him and two other astronauts to the International Space Station. (Kyodo)

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3 astronauts at Russian training center

MOSCOW, Russia - (From L to R) Astronauts Sunita Williams of the United States, Yuri Malenchenko of Russia and Akihiko Hoshide of Japan are pictured in front of a Soyuz training module at Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center near Moscow on Feb. 28, 2012, ahead of the launch later this year of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft that will carry them to the International Space Station. (Kyodo)

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Astronaut Furukawa in Russia

MOSCOW, Russia - Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa holds a press conference at the Yuri Gagarin cosmonaut training center at Star City in suburban Moscow on Dec. 15, 2011. (Kyodo)

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Astronaut Furukawa in Russia

MOSCOW, Russia - Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa (L front) poses for photos with astronauts from the United States and Russia in front of a statue of cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin at the Yuri Gagarin cosmonaut training center at Star City in suburban Moscow on Dec. 15, 2011. (Kyodo)

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Astronauts traveling to ISS set

(From R) Astronauts Norishige Kanai of Japan, Anton Shkaplerov of Russia and Scott Tingle of the United States join hands at Gagarin Cosmonauts Training Center on the outskirts of Moscow on Nov. 29, 2017, before a final examination to travel to the International Space Station in Russia's Soyuz spacecraft on Dec. 17. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo