"Put your hands in your sleeves": the full text of the instructions, according to which Yuri Gagarin flew into outer space
12 апреля 2021, 14:41
A 13-page instruction has been posted on the Web, the points of which were to be followed by the first cosmonaut.
Popular blogger Rustem Adagamov published an extremely curious document "Instructions to the Cosmonaut on the Operation and Control of the Vostok-3A Spacecraft".
It is noteworthy that it survived to this day, despite the formidable resolution "Destroy!", which belongs to the organizer and head of the training of the first Soviet cosmonauts Nikolay Kamanin. The instruction was only declassified in 2009...