Students Honour Yuri Gagarin, Launch Guitar Rocket

12 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone in Adventure, Art, Culture, Design, Entertainment, Epic, Science, Tech/Sci, Very Cool

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The headline says it all. Students from the Siberian State Aerospace University decided to mark and honour Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin’s first flight into space, which was 50 years ago today, by building a rocket out of a guitar. Coincidentally it resembles a Gibson Flying V.

The self-made rocket was launched a few days early by students on Sunday the 10th April in Russia’s Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. Yuri’s actual mission took place today.

The rocket can be seen ascending near a monument of the Cosmos-3 rocket carrier which is 32.4 metres high, and in the city centre.

Air guitar…

Gagarin is still a national icon in Russia, 43 years after he died in a jet training accident.

It was also in aid of the Day of Aviation and Cosmonautics, with the words on the rocket reading: “Space”.

Nothing like a bit of air guitar every now and then.

[Source: Reuters]

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