His Holiness Patriarch Alexy meets leaders of the Centre of Space Flights Control

The Primate of Russian Orthodox Church received a delegation of leaders of the Centre of Space Flights Control in the patriarch’s chambers in the Laura of the Holy Trinity and St. Sergius.

Members of the delegation greeted His Holiness Patriarch Alexy with the feast of Pascha and presented him with souvenirs. During the talk the leaders of the Centre expressed their gratitude to the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church for his attention to and care for space crews both those training on the earth and those in the orbit flights.

On 19 March 2006, His Holiness Patriarch Alexy gave a cross to the leaders of space industry, and the last cosmic crew has brought it to the orbit.