On April 12, our country celebrates Cosmonautics Day. The starry sky has always attracted people's gaze, luring them with its mystery. People dreamed of learning as much as possible about space. Humanity's history in space began on April 12, 1961, when Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin made a flight aboard the spacecraft 'Vostok-1'. The ship, with the 27-year-old cosmonaut on board, lifted off from the Baikonur launch pad and spent 108 minutes in Earth's orbit. Thus began the era of space rockets, satellites, and lunar rovers.
On Cosmonautics Day, the A.N. Radishchev Museum held a master class 'Rockets Rush to Distant Worlds...' for third-grade students of the school in the village of Posyolki in the Kuznetsky District. The children made a model rocket out of cardboard and colored paper using the origami technique.
During the master class, the children recalled the history of the holiday and learned about the discovery of the minor planet (2833) Radishchev, which was discovered in the constellation Aquarius on August 9, 1978 by Soviet astronomers Lyudmila and Nikolai Chernykh at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory and was named on July 13, 1984 in honor of the writer A.N. Radishchev. As of April 2024, the data-arc span of this minor planet amounted to 33,213 days. Observatories around the world observed it over 33 oppositions.
The event was accompanied by the game 'Space Dictionary' to expand vocabulary with words related to space. At the end of the master class, the students took souvenir photos at the 'space' photo zone.
