Posted on 06/18/2018 6:34:38 PM PDT by marshmallow
Moscow, June 18, Interfax - Celebrations dedicated to the 55th anniversary of the first flight of woman-cosmonaut to space were held in the Yaroslavl Region on Saturday.
According to the information of the Yaroslavl regional government, the celebrations started with consecration of St. Nicholas Church built in the native village of Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman-cosmonaut. A park has already been set up near the church in the Nikulskoye village.
The Space Museum opened in Nikulskoye after reconstruction. Its guests can feel the atmosphere of the 1960-s, paint the placards, learn more about fashion of the epoch, visit the retro cinema, watch celestial bodies in a telescope and listen to the concert of author’s songs.
The Russky Vityaz' (Russian Knights - IF) pilot group show, aqua show and peashooters show were presented in Yaroslavl over the Volga River.
Vostok-6 spaceship piloted by Valentina Tereshkova was launched on June 16, 1963.
In its heyday, the Soviet space program was a platform for propagating atheism.
“I see no God up here.” Yuri Gagarin (though this is disputed now.)
Meanwhile US astronauts on the Apollo 8 mission in Christmas of 1968 read Bible passages from the Book of Genesis.
https://www.nasa.gov/topics/history/features/apollo_8.html
I always found it hilarious - and shameful - that so many in officialdom and media let people think that Sally Ride was the first woman in space.
It was equally shameful and hilarious that she and others concealed that she was a lesbian - even though any non-blind person could tell from a mile away. Of course, they would preemptively fault the public for noticing and minding as a smokescreen for their subterfuge.
The communion was done during a short period of radio silence because NASA didn't want that biddy Madeline Murray O'Hair suing on grounds of religious establishment as she did for the Apollo 8 Bible reading.
Aldrin's communion set is now used by his church every year on the Sunday closest to the landing's anniversary as a "lunar communion Sunday".
Valentina Tereshkova was always, I thought, a dedicated communist, and not religious.
Maybe that’s changed.
In the cable series, from the Earth to the Moon, Bryan Cranston played Buzz Aldrin. they showed the portrayal of Buzz Aldrin taking his communion in the lunar module. It was most excellently done.
Soon, it will be the other way around.
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