Day of Mongolia’s First Space Flight marks today
The 22nd of March, 2023, or today marks the 42nd anniversary of the first space flight by a Mongolian.
The 22nd of March, 2023, or today marks the 42nd anniversary of the first space flight by a Mongolian. On this day in 1981, the Hero of the Mongolian People’s Republic, Hero of the USSR Mr. Gurragchaa along with twice Hero of USSR, Hero of Mongolian People’s Republic, Soviet cosmonaut Mr. Dzhanibekov flew into space on the Soyuz 39 spacecraft, landing back on Earth at 7.42 pm on March 30. While in orbit, 36 experiments and research were carried out in the fields of medical care and biology, physics, and technology, and remote sensing, which laid out the foundations for the development of space science in Mongolia. With this event, Mongolia became the 10th country in the world to send off a cosmonaut into space, and Mongolian cosmonaut Mr. Gurragchaa became the 2nd person in Asia, and the 101st person in the world to fly into space.
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