Content Fifty years later: where are we flying?

"Dead Journal." For the past one and a half weeks, the most popular Runet platform - Livejournal - is subjected to massive cyber attacks. The most serious of them were March 30 and April 4, although on other days access to the Live Journal was difficult for many users. In a few hours, instead of the usual 50 thousand, LJ appeals receives more than a million requests from non -existent users. They are directed from tens of thousands of computers from Southeast Asia.

April 12 marks 50 years since the very day when a hungry and poor country suddenly all or almost all at once felt happy. “All radio stations work ... In the Soviet Union, the world's first spacecraft-satellite“ Vostok ”with man on board was brought into orbit around the Earth. The pilot-cosmonaut of the spacecraft-satellite "Vostok" is a citizen of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, pilot, Major Gagarin Yuri Alekseevich, "said Levitan.

George Grechko flew into space on Soyuz-17, Soyuz-26 and T-14 Union, worked at Salyut-4 orbital stations, Salyut-6 and Salyut-7. In total spent in orbit 134 days 21 hours 32 minutes 52 seconds We must fly. 50 years later, from the day of the flight of Yuri Gagarin Cosmos, in any case, the near -Earth, ceased to be the subject of lust and aspirations. The virtual world has become much more attractive than the starry sky above the head. Maybe so it is necessary?

Artist Boris Zhutovsky says goodbye to the artist Vladimir Galatsky Vladimir Galatsky 07/23/1929 - 5.04.2011 There was a long happiness ... Artist Vladimir Galatsky died in Stockholm At dawn, the thick fog sighed above the water. The owl without sound arose and disappeared into the air. The bird's grades tried to drive a bird's bell into the rhythm. The shut on the pikes slapped his tails, and the light dawn breeze slowed down the garlands of willow leaves.

Censorship in ANFAS and profile Myth -making in uniform. It was called so that the enemy did not guess: “TASS under the Council of Ministers of the USSR.

The secular authorities joined the fight against the Izhevsk schismatics Dissenters. Three Izhevsk priests refused to commemorate Patriarch Kirill in their churches and called on the leadership of the Russian Orthodox Church to fight against the excessive bureaucratization of the church. The priests have already been taken out of state, expelled from churches and banned from serving. The secular authorities also joined the fight against the schismatics.

"I prefer to drink vodka alone." One of the oldest British rock groups Jethro Tull, starting on April 12, will give concerts in Perm, Moscow and St. Petersburg. The current tour is a kind of experiment: rock musicians will play not only with the Opus Posth ensemble Tatyana Grindenko, but also-on Skype-with the American astronaut Katherine Kolman, who is now in orbit.

Dmitry Medvedev and Vladimir Putin once again entered a public controversy. This time on the basis of the Internet. The reason for the highest disgrace was the performance of the head of the Center for Information and Special Relations of the FSB Alexander Andreichkin on Rutinnna, it would seem, a meeting of the Government Commission on federal communications and technological issues of informatization.

Report from Star Town The cabin of the descent apparatus of the Ship "Soyuz" The center of the preliminary space. In the Star Town, where astronauts are trained before going on a long journey, the New Times correspondents visited Even sitting in the full-size layout of the descended apparatus of the Soyuz ship, on which astronauts work out control skills and launching to the ground, it is difficult to experience the feeling that it has become even a little closer to the space.

May 1961: chief designer Sergei Pavlovich Korolev (in the photo sits to the right of Gagarin) with his wife Nina Ivanovna came to Star. Next to her, on the right, is the first head of the Cosmonauts training center Evgeny Karpov. The first detachment is almost in full training: from left to right sit: P. Popovich, V. Gorbatko, E. Khrunov, Yu. Gagarin (everyone flew to orbit). The middle row: A. Leonov, A. Nikolaev (both later flew), M. Rafikov, D.

Investigation of the tragedy near Smolensk far from completion April 10, 2010. At the site of the disaster The investigation is not completed, do not forget! A year after the plane crash near Smolensk, who claimed the life of President Lech Kachinsky, his wife Maria and another 86 representatives of the Polish elite, President of Poland Bronislav Komorovsky arrived in Russia.

What is the exit to orbit Billions in airless space. The development of space requires a lot of money. Space programs can be either expensive or very expensive. Many are wondering: are multi -billion dollar expenses justified? The answer was looking for The New Times To calculate what the launch of the first satellite, the flight of Yuri Gagarin, the first space stations, cost the Soviet Union, today is almost impossible today.