"First Man Into Space" Trailer

[majormannfred]

Reminded me of a Outer Limits episode...

[witchman67]

and brought to you by the same guy who brought you "Fiend Without a Face."

A great film,and another saturday afternoon creature feature..

[Mality]

Creepy movie, later remade as "Incredible Melting Man"

[witchman67]

This was a good movie, very scary when I was a kid.

[AtlantisSaturn]

S. Khrushchev: The public, of course, did not know that in this day, [Yuri] Gagarin would be launched. In the Soviet Union, space launches were not announced in advance, because there is always the possibility that it will not happen on time, or, in general, something can happen. Therefore, only those involved knew about that.

[AtlantisSaturn]

2) ... потому что всегда есть вероятность, что это не произойдет вовремя и вообще может что-то случиться. Поэтому знали об этом только те, кто с этим был связан.

[AtlantisSaturn]

1) Here's a fragment from the interview of Sergey Khrushchev, the son of Sergey Khrushchev, to BBC:

С. Хрущев: О том, что в этот день запустят [Юрия] Гагарина, публика естественно не знала. В Советском Союзе не объявляли заранее о космических запусках, ...

[AtlantisSaturn]

Alan Shepard was the first man who has returned from space. Gagarin was a simple actor. He never was in space.

[barflewk]

Never heard that one before. Are you joking?

[AtlantisSaturn]

I am pretty serious. The Soviets were the ones who joked. They lied to the world about sending the first man into space. There is no evidence that Gagarin was in space. No video, no audio, no photo. Nothing, except for the Soviet official declaration. Why should anybody believe it?

[barflewk]

If it was a fake the US would have been all over it pointing out the Soviet 's scam. Same with the Apollo landings, moon hoaxers can't answer why the Russians didn't scream "fake" when it happened.

[AtlantisSaturn]

There is a lot of evidence of Moon landings, but no evidence of Gagarin's flight. The Americans have probably tracked a man in space on April 12, 1961, but it was not necessarily Gagarin. There is a version that another man flew on that day, who died during his flight, so they chuted Gagarin from a plane. He landed outised the capsule, which was initially denied by the Soviets. The Americans couldn't prove that another man flew on that day, so they said nothing.

[barflewk]

The glaring error in that story is that the Soviets said before the flight that Gagarin was the guy going up. As much as I'd like to believe it, the timeline doesn't make sense.

[AtlantisSaturn]

That's BULLSHIT. The Soviets did NOT say that they will send a man (let alone Gagarin) in space before April 12. Where did you take it from? The first TASS declaration was made DURING his alleged flight, at 9:57 Moscow time. Learn some elementary facts.

[AtlantisSaturn]

ALL first Soviet flights were secret. They were announcing them only if they were successful.

[barflewk]

One week before the flight they announced that Gagarin was the guy going up. Sorry. Look it up if you don't believe me.

[AtlantisSaturn]

Is that a joke or something? That's BULLSHIT, I repeat. I hear about this for the first time. Give me a source, please.

[shriramvenu]

how abot you give some reliable source about your idiotic high altitude airplane theory??

[shriramvenu]

this is just more stupid sour grape american rhetoric

[superjeff5001]

that looks awesome

[Finispshellnut]

this movie scared the s--- out of me when I saw it w/my grandmother in the late 50's

[tun875]

Why?

[MrrSpidey]

Because the guy comes back as a blood-drinking monster!

You and me both, brother! I didn't see many horror films when I was a kid, and this one stuck with me for years afterward.