Space Cover 5dedicated to 50th Anniversary of Gagarin Flight Signed by Soyuz TMA-21 crew : cosmonauts A. Samokutyaev, A. Borisenko and NASA astronaut Ronald J. Garan.

Soyuz TMA-21 ("Gagarin") was Soyuz flight to ISS. It transported three members of Expedition 27 crew to the ISS, and docked at the station on April 6, 2011. TMA-21 is the 109th flight of a Soyuz spacecraft, the first of which launched in 1967. The Soyuz remained attached to the space station as a lifeboat, throughout the remainder of Expedition 27 and through the end of Expedition 28 , and returned to Earth on September 16, 2011.

The launch of Soyuz TMA-21 was devoted to the 50th anniversary of the first crewed space mission, which was conducted by Yuri Gagarin on April 12, 1961.

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