From Gagarin to CryoSat-2

On this poster displayed in the Gagarin's museum, the Cosmonaut talks to us:

"Orbiting the Earth in a spaceship, I have seen how beautiful is our planet. People, let's preserve it and not destroy it "

Since Gagarin's maiden flight, this message of Earth beauty and fragility seen from space has been re-iterated several times by space travelers.

Cryosat-2, the ESA icy mission, together with other environmental missions, will help to better answer questions raised by the present global warming. To that respect, CryoSat-2 mission carries on the original Gagarin's message by better understanding the complexity of the Earth environmental "machinery".

Bill handed over a (still half packed :-) model of the spacecraft to Venera, our guide.


CS-2 will be soon displayed in this prestigious Baikonur space museum. It is certainly an honor for all the persons who have contributed to this project.

Richard was then invited to sign the guest book.


He wrote:

"The Cryosat-2 team are (almost) ready for launch - thanks to the great support of the Russian team and the local hospital*!" R. F.

*See the previous note: Surgeon of the Baikonur hospital brought great support to the project