Representatives of Futurussia of Skolkovo Foundation, students of the leading universities, young professionals in the field of innovation and technology, and journalists gathered to celebrate the half-century anniversary of the first human flight in space. Precisely at the time, when 50 years ago the first man flew over the planet, radio communications of the astronaut with the dispatcher were again voiced and the engine roared. At this point, one of the satellites was flying above the ground of Skolkovo and captured all the participants of the holiday celebrations. Overlapping images of the Cosmonautics Day were made using a different technology - unmanned aerial vehicles. The unique images will shortly be available on the Google Maps service.
"Fifty years ago our people did something unimaginable – we were the first to send a man into space. The bold step of the USSR into space became the symbol of the era. The innovation that was made by Gagarin in April 1960, forever recorded our country as the conqueror of space. It is difficult to measure in economical terms, but it can be estimated historically," said Ivan Burtnik, the coordinator of the community of innovators of Russia - Futurussia. "Now we are back in the era when the eyes of the young scientists, innovators are burning with the forthcoming discoveries. We again, all together, dream of great and bright scientific discoveries. We are creating all the conditions for this. Innovations that we create in the future, here in Skolkovo, in Russia, will help to record our nation in the first lines of many more achievements of mankind."
By participating in the celebration of the anniversary of the first flight into space, the first Russian city of innovation has inscribed its name in the national history of scientific thought. In the near future, there will be built an infrastructure in Skolkovo that will provide everything necessary for laboratories and centers of new technologies.
"The snapshot from space on Skolkovo glade is like the registration of Skolkovo. Every participant will be able to come to our City Manager and select the laboratory where he would like to work and the site of the house where he would like to live," said the vice-president of the Skolkovo Foundation, Stanislav Naumov. "Participants of the project will be the first to receive the architectural plan. It will also be photographed from space, it will appear in modern information systems, and everyone will be able to propose the name of a famous scientist or an astronaut as the name for one of the streets."