Vostok-1 launch (Humankind's first spaceflight)

[leah08leah]

EAR RAPE

[malamagr]

Why does it have to turn into an international war? If there are Martians spying on YouTube they're laughing at the barbaric Earthlings who will never be able to unify because every little thing turns into tribes of howling apes throwing stones at each other.

[malamagr]

It's amazing that the rockets they launch today are so much like the original. That thing doesn't look much different from the 50th-anniversary Soyuz launch. Who invented the paperclip... or that booster and launchpad configuration.

[eastsidelife4ever36]

@YaUusi America put rovers on Mars and the Russians could never successfully land on Mars. Also America sent spacecraft to Neptune, farther, and even out of the solar system and the Russians have never done any such thing. They've only gone as far as Jupiter maybe. All they pretty much do is launch, orbit, dock and re-enter the atmosphere. So America has actually expanded the knowledge of space very much. I think we still need to see future space exploration to judge whats going on.

[pilotmike5]

Yeah...we really suck...we still have our flag though...remember to kiss it on your way over through immigration..

[miekemaligne]

okay that was soooo cool! Mieke

[IzackN]

One day short of being half a century ago. Interesting, though a little depressing to think about it.

Поехали...

[faithoffaith]

its amazing they had the technology to do that back then even though there were no mobile phones

[phobbb]

@faithoffaith <_<

[themainproblem]

It looks like our incompetent government has pissed away all of our money for manned spaceflight. I would however like to see Russia land on the moon (and soon) but only if it is fully televised so I can watch it here. :-) With a top notch video link it will be amazing to watch.

Respect from Apache Junction, Arizona

[davidlucasfer]

espectacular

[JPnintendofan]

Guys, don't argue with facts. Russia launched a man into space first. The USA landed on the moon in 1969, NO HOAX. Just realize the importance in this footage and stop arguing.

[TheOutlawWeasel]

great upload squarkino! i'm a space nut and never saw this footage before. better quality than i thought it would be.

[Squarkino]

@TheOutlawWeasel Thanks!

[telescopereplicator]

@TheOutlawWeasel Recently, a better version has been uploaded. Copy and paste this link in YouTube. (Only copy the text between *** )

*** VOSTOK-2 LAUNCH AND MISSION, RARE FOOTAGE, August 6, 1961 ***

[Ironoff]

nasa/american motto: "If We Can't Make It, Fake It", and that is exactly what happened when america faked the moon landing thanks to Walt Disney and film director Stanley Kubrick.

[7xAlpha]

Amazing... it's realy amazing. First human space-fly. Yeah! Yeah, damn! )

[vomiol]

Merzbow

[aliensslayer]

haahahahahhahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!­!! we beated the stupid americans. 1st in space yuri gagarin ,bourishnikov!

[woodman19]

Its not how you start, its how you finish.

What has Russia done in space since?

[YaUusi]

um...russians have nearly double the amount of man hours in space that NASA astronauts have, it has built and operated almost a dozen space stations (compared to only 1 american), Russian modules make up the core of the ISS, and without their experience with Mir, the enitre ISS would be impossible. also, the russians have the cheapest, safest, and most reliable launch vehicle. time and time again, we have seen that soyuz > shuttle. so i would say nasa could learn a thing or two from the russians

[heound]

@YaUusi idiot the americans had more than 1. They had/have 2. ISS (Mostly made of American Parts) Skylab Skylab B (Cancelled) also... Soyuz < Space shuttle because soyuz Has 2 out of 28 failures and shuttle has 2 out of 130 failures. SO SHUT UP.

[lolvks]

@heound

The Americans only had 1 dude

ISS isn't counted or else it would be called MASS (mostly American SS)

Soyuz > Shuttle

Soyuz has been here BEFORE the moon landings and will be here AFTER STS-134 a.k.a. the LAST shuttle mission and will be here LONG after that

Actually, the soyuz has 2 failures out of 259 for a total of 4 deaths

Shuttle has 2 failures out of 131 for a total of 14 deaths

Oh, I also heard the american manned space program is coming to an end, how sad...

[heound]

@lolvks I see what youre saying. But the american space is coming to an end thats why they invented the COTS vehicles. (Falcon 9 / Taurus 2)

[RoboticTable]

@lolvks no it isn't ending. the shuttle program is ending in about a month, after that NASA is going to decide what to do next.

[lolvks]

@RoboticTable STS-135 did not exist 1 year ago, so yeah...

[RoboticTable]

@lolvks A fair point

[MabelNormand]

@lolvks What about the 8 people who died when the building housing Buran fell in? The fact that the U.S. had 14 people on two flights and the Russians only had 4 people on there two flights isn't really something to brag about.

[heound]

@YaUusi

Also we landed on the moon first

while you exploded an N1

Dont even try to reply.

[Alaska1925]

@YaUusi hehehe... the soyuz can't fly more than 1 time... but you already know that right?

[RoboticTable]

@YaUusi very true, although their N1 rockets had a 100% failure rate

[eastsidelife4ever36]

@YaUusi Actually I think it might be too early to say which craft is reliable. I agree with you that the Russians have cheaper craft but the number of accidents the Shuttle program had is equivalent to the number of accidents that the Soyuz program had.. However I don't agree that America needs to learn from the Russians. Think about it, America went to the moon in 8 years after the first American astronauts went into space.

[Grant691]

@YaUusi Exactly. The USSR devoted much to space exploration.

[nonamedyet]

:O A lot!!!

[MrPetrovic1991]

First walk in space, First lunar landing, (Luna 1) Space shuttle Buran, Space station MIR

;-)

[heound]

@aliensslayer shut you guys never landed on the Moon.

N-1 Idiot.

[heound]

@aliensslayer Stop posting spam.

[alitlweird]

excellent audio, you Ruskies!

[TausMunk]

Ignorant twat, you got ANY idea how loud an igniting launch vehicle is?

[YaUusi]

this is 1961 you dumbass.

[Cheechoooo]

Yeah

[drsheikhjunior]

very loud....