The raising of the flags in our quarantine location took place on Saturday morning: Anton and Terry could join Max and Reid in raising their country’s flag, while I raised Kazakhstan’s flag this time.
Afterwards, Terry, Anton and I exercised our backup crew prerogative of breaking quarantine for one day and we went on the traditional visit of the Baikonour monuments, leaving the prime crew behind.
After a brief stop at the Soyuz monument, we paid a visit to the statue of Yuri Gagarin, where we were warmly welcomed by the local school children and by the mayor of Baikonour. Terry and I were presented with a gift symbolizing the city (Anton received it already in the past) and then we all we laid some flowers at the statue, honoring the first human to fly to space. As we turned around, we posed for a traditional fun picture, matching Yuri’s pose with raised arms.
The next monument we stopped at is dedicated to Chief Engineer Korolyov, recognized as the main contributor to the achievements of the Soviet space program in the 50s and 60s. Here, again, we laid flowers in recognition of his engineering genius and leadership.
Next stop: the Baikonour museum…
Picture credit: GCTC
More pictures here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/astrosamantha/sets/72157644330297400/
(Trad IT) Traduzione in italiano a cura di +AstronautiNEWS qui:
https://www.astronautinews.it/tag/logbook/
(Trad ES) Tradducción en español aquí:
https://www.intervidia.com/category/bitacora/
(Trad FR) Traduction en français par +Anne Cpamoa ici:
https://spacetux.org/cpamoa/category/traductions/logbook-samantha/
21/05/2014