Lunar Crater Gagarin - Asteroid 1772 Gagarin - Yuri Gagarin - Zagreb, Croatia - Extraterrestrial Locations on Waymarking.com

Lunar Crater Gagarin is a large lunar impact crater that is located in the southern hemisphere on the far side of the Moon. To the southwest is the crater Pavlov and to the northeast lies Keeler. Closer to the rim are the craters Levi-Civita to the southwest, and Beijerinck to the north-northeast. Isaev lies entirely within the northwest rim of Gagarin. Gagarin has been heavily eroded by a long history of crater impacts. The inner floor is covered by a multitude of crater impacts of various dimensions.
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1772 Gagarin is a stony asteroid from the central region of the asteroid belt, approximately 9 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 6 February 1968, by Russian astronomer Lyudmila Chernykh at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory in Nauchnyj, on the Crimean peninsula.
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Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968) was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961. Gagarin became an international celebrity, and was awarded many medals and titles, including Hero of the Soviet Union, the nation's highest honour. Vostok 1 marked his only spaceflight, but he served as backup crew to the Soyuz 1 mission. Gagarin later became deputy training director of the Cosmonaut Training Centre outside Moscow, which was later named after him. Gagarin died in 1968 when the MiG-15 training jet he was piloting crashed. The Federation Aeronautique Internationale awards the Yuri A. Gagarin Gold Medal in his honor.
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Location for this waymark is the bust of Yuri Gagarin in Zagreb, Croatia. The bust has been placed in this location on 18 October 2016 to mark 55th anniversary of Gagarin's spaceflight and friendship between Croatia and Russian Federation. The author of the bust is Alexey Leonov, cosmonaut who became the first human to conduct extravehicular activity during the Voskhod 2 mission. The bust represents a gift of the Embassy of the Russian Federation to the City of Zagreb.

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