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Tuesday, April 12, 2011

First Orbit - See What Yuri Gagarin Saw

A real time recreation of Yuri Gagarin's pioneering first orbit, shot entirely in space from on board the International Space Station. The film combines this new footage with Gagarin's original mission audio and a new musical score by composer Philip Sheppard. For more information visit www.firstorbit.org

The making of First Orbit was a huge challenge. Find out here from the film makers what went into producing this orbital epic!!

Yuri Gagarin Photos

Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (a Russian pilot and cosmonaut) was the first human to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on April 12, 1961.

Images from www.federalspace.ru

Monday, April 11, 2011

Yuri Gagarin: First Man in Space

On the 12th of April 1961, 50 years ago Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel into space.

Yuri Gagarin via ~Colins7

April 12 was already a huge day in space history twenty years before the launch of the first shuttle mission. On that day in 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin (left, on the way to the launch pad) became the first human in space, making a 108-minute orbital flight in his Vostok 1 spacecraft. Newspapers like The Huntsville Times (right) trumpeted Gagarin's accomplishment.
via nasa