posted 12-24-2015 12:18 PM               

Here everything is clear — next year will be 55 years of flight of Yuri Gagarin," Soyuz TMA-19M commander Yuri Malenchenko wrote in his blog. "April 12, 1961, the flight of the first earthling opened the era of manned spaceflight, and I am very proud that together with my colleagues I have the most direct bearing on the continuation and development of the space age."