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The Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre was inaugurated on January 11, 1960 in Star City outside Moscow. In 1968 it was renamed Gagarin Cosmonauts Training Centre in memory of the first man in space, Yuri Gagarin.
The centre contains facilities for training the various procedures needed for space travel.
External links
Russian Space Science Internet: Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (http://howe.iki.rssi.ru/GCTC/gctc_e.htm)
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was born in the Smolensk region of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
Gagarin and fellow cosmonaut Gherman Titov, front-runners in their class, were both contenders for the Vostok 1 flight.
Gagarin was exposed to about six times the normal force of gravity on the earth during the launch phase and about eight times the normal force of gravity during the re-entry.
The TrainingCenter, established on January 11, 1960, was created to develop the scientific and technical prerequisites for manned spaceflight.
The center would be responsible for the training of every cosmonaut to fly into space, including the first, YuriGagarin.
While we also visited some of the classrooms used to teach cosmonauts and viewed the full-scale mock-up of the recently deorbited Mir space station, the highlight of this tour, at least personally, was the TrainingCenter Museum.
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