Your Yuri Gagarin Adventure Begins Here
Its been exactly 50 years to the day in some places anyway that cosmonaut Yuri Gagarins maiden voyage set off an international space. It took him just 108 minutes to orbit Earth and he returned as the Worlds very first space man.
caption idattachment_100083573 alignalignnone width460 captionYuri Gagarin the first man in space.
Indias first space traveller Rakesh Sharma is still a hero to many of his countrymen who remember him as the man who established as early as in the 1980s Indias growing influence in international space research.
Tragically THE Yuri Gagarin died in an accident while piloting an experimental plane a few years after his legendary 108minute orbital flight. But in a strange coincidence there is still a Yuri Gagarin one who remembers him very. The full length film has been released on YouTube today to mark the 50 year anniversary of Gagarins.
50 Years ago on April 121961 the era of Human spaceflight opened with a roar to the heavens above with the thunderous blastoff of Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin aboard the Vostok 1 capsule from the Baikonur Cosmodrome Site No.
On 12th April 2011 it will be 50 years to the day since Yuri Gagarin climbed into his space ship and was launched into space. He was strapped aboard the Vostok 1 spacecraft and blasted off to the High Froniter.
Yuri Gagarins 108 minute trip in his Vostok spacecraft ushered in the era of manned space flight as the US followed up with the Mercury Gemini and later the Apollo missions to the moon. Photo AFPGETTYcaption Fifty years ago today mankind took its first step off the planet. In 1975 the US and Russia stopped competing.
First Orbit by director Christopher Riley is a recreation of Yuri Gagarins orbit around Earth as the worlds first human in space.
Today April 12 is the 50th Anniversary of Earths first manned spaceflight by Hero Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin of what was then the Soviet Union.
YouTube is celebrating 50 years of human spaceflight with the premiere of an hourandahalf long video First Orbit that recreates in realtime Russian astronaut Yuri Gagarins first 108minute long orbit of Earth in 1961.
