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A replica of the capsule Yuri Gagarin, who should be thought first as a
pilot and second as a Cosmonaut, in a room dedicated to early Soviet firsts
that were launched by the Soviet program. Konstanin Tsiokovskii was the
"Father of Astronautics" who, along with with Sergei Korolov, gave the
Russians big start in the Space Race. He provided an equation for a space
craft to enter earth's orbit at about the Wright Brothers were changing
history in Kitty Hawk. His favorite quote was, "The Earth is a cradle of
the mind, but one cannot live in a cradle forever."
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