On April 12, on the occasion of World Aviation and Cosmonautics Day a round table is taking place in Sofia discussing the perspectives of space studies in Bulgaria. President Rossen Plevneliev will give out distinctions and orders for Civil Valor of retired veteran pilots who performed the first flights over the ocean in 1964 from Sofia to Lima with stopovers at Paris, Dakar, Rasife and Asuncion. The Central Military Club in Sofia will be the venue of a ceremony for the validating of a postal stamp dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the first military flight performed by the Bulgarian aviation.
