First Orbit

[Sarmatian]

Fifty years ago on this day, Yuri Gagarin became the first human to be in space. In a spacecraft Vostok 1 he made a single orbit of Earth and spaceflight lasted 108 minutes.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_N-4ASXXQfUg/TURC0ixnv3I/AAAAAAAACGc/nthZLoe_EdE/s1600/Yuri%2BGagarin.jpg

Director Chris Riley made a film about it called First Orbit. It shows Gagarin spaceflight as it happened 50 years ago.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKs6ikmrLgg&feature=player_embedded

[rajpoot]

Inspiring stuff.
Proof that nothing is impossible and that given time, there is no limit to man's reach.

It's a pity that today people are more interested in the conspiracy theories about how these things may have never happened and were all fabricated.

[Ronin]

"They say another cosmonaut orbited earth before Yuri Gagarin. But he was not loyal enough to hold his breath when his life support system gave up."

:P

[drone]

"They say another cosmonaut orbited earth before Yuri Gagarin. But he was not loyal enough to hold his breath when his life support system gave up."

:P

Laika never gets any credit. :no:

[Monk]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91kdwxFsthI

Everybody now!

[Louis VI the Fat]

FAKE


Commie propaganda

[Ronin]

here's some more feel-good fare.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/04/08/134597833/cosmonaut-crashed-into-earth-crying-in-rage

*contains picture that can be considered mildly disturbing*

[Crazed Rabbit]

A milestone for mankind.

:bow:

CR

[Beirut]

Never underestimate the Russians. ~:smoking:

[Sarmatian]

FAKE


Commie propaganda

We all know that a worker's heart can not lie. Lies are left to the capitalist dogs :)