Tolvte April:
Russia:
The rest of the world might celebrate International Day of Human Space Flights, but Ivan Braginsky, Russia, preferred to celebrate Cosmonautics Day.
After all, cosmonaut was a very Russian word, which held so much more in it than the simple "astronaut" did. Astronauts only reached for the stars while cosmonauts reached for the whole cosmos. Known and unknown.
This day was also the day when he'd defeated America in the Space Race. It didn't matter what other achievements America and other countries later did, no one could take this from him; it was from his country that the first man (and woman) got sent out to space.
Author's notes:
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