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Today marks 41st anniversary of Mongolia’s first space flight
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Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/. Today marks the 41st anniversary of the first space
flight by a Mongolian. On this day in 1981, Hero of Mongolian People’s
Republic, Hero of USSR Jugderdemidiin Gurragchaa along with twice Hero of USSR,
Hero of Mongolian People’s Republic, Soviet cosmonaut V.A.Dzhanibekov flew into
space on the Soyuz 39 spacecraft, landing back on Earth at 7.42 pm on March
30.
With this event, Mongolia became the 10th country in the world to send off a cosmonaut into space, and Mongolian cosmonaut J.Gurragchaa became the 2nd person in Asia, and the 101st person in the world to fly into space.
While in orbit, 25 types of 36 experiments and research
works 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.
Incidentally, a MONTSAME team of seven comprised of columnists, reporters, and photographers covered the events related the flights between 1978 and 1981 and took over 60 percent of all photographs of the space flights in Mongolia, especially those in the archives.
