To commemorate the 60th anniversary of humanity's first space flight, Japanese and Russian astronauts interacted with Japanese children online to convey the charm of space.
The event was held to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the successful first space flight of humankind by former Soviet astronaut Yuri Gagarin in 1961.
On the 16th, an exchange event was held by connecting the Japanese Embassy in Russia with the "Gifu Kakamigahara Aerospace Museum" via the Internet.
Among them, Sergei Krikalyov (62 years old), who has made six space flights in the past and has stayed for more than 800 days in total, is studying space food in each country participating in space development. He went on and told with humor stories about how his eating habits at the space station improved visibly.
Naoko Yamazaki, who flew in space in 2010, said, "The International Space Station was as beautiful as the Earth seen from space. Through many years of challenge and international cooperation, humankind has made such a thing in space." He talked about the excitement of seeing the space station for the first time.
The state of the exchange is distributed on the Internet to about 300 people including elementary and junior high school students in Gifu prefecture, children and students from Japanese schools in Moscow, and in the question and answer section, the children are sent to astronauts from Japan and Russia one after another. I was asking.