Yuri Gagarin getting ready and launch on board Vostok 1

Original footage of Yuri Gagaring getting dressed, going by bus to the launch site together with G.Titov (backup cosmonaut), greeting with some officers and Sergey Korolyov (head engineer of the Soviet Space Program), sitting into Vostok 1 and being launched.

You can read further and watch more videos at: http://sovietrussia.co.uk/remembering-the-first-man-in-space/

Puedes leer más y ver más vídeos en: http://sovietrussia.es/recordando-el-primer-hombre-en-el-espacio/

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Gagarin
• Vostok
• Baikonur
• Korolyov
• Space

[grummeper]

Orbiting Earth in the spaceship, I saw how beautiful our planet is. People, let us preserve and increase this beauty, not destroy it!

Yuri Gagarin

[Pseudologic]

Gagarin was first human in space, not first Russian. Regardless of what communist party's intentions were, for the scientists and cosmonauts it was about scientific achievement, not politics. And it was an achievement, paved way to current space science. What did lunar landings achieve, if they existed at all?

[MrSuperSpamer]

dONT READ THIS CAUSE IT ADCTUALY WORKS YOU WILL GET KISSED ON THE NEAREST POSSIBLE FRIDAY BY THE LOVE OF YOUR LIFE TOMMORROW WILL BE THE BEST DAY OF YOUR LIFE.HOWEVER IF YOU DONT POST THIS COMMENT ON AT LEAST THREE VIDEOS YOU WILL DIE WITHIN TWO DAYS.NOW YOU STARTED READING THIS DONT STOP THIS IS SO SCARY.PUT THIS ON AT LEAST FIVE VIDEOS IN 143 MINUTES WHEN UR DONE PRESS F6 AND UR LOVERS NAME WILL APPEAR IN BIG LETTERS. THIS IS SO SCARY CAUSE IT ACTUALLY WOrk

[apocalypticmadman]

@pyromaanisi I doubt it

[shohrat77]

@downie102 Oh yeah you're right, I didnt post it, and now im in paradise, they have youtube here :D

[pyromaanisi]

@downie102 do you have a life?

[Pseudologic]

@VanKlaunch Fair enough.

[VanKlaunch]

I'm a patriot of Earth and humanity, not any single, particular expanse of land, and I find all cosmonauts, astronauts and scientists to be heroic pioneers for humanity's next stage.

[VanKlaunch]

@Pseudologic I agreed with you pretty much until your last sentence. If you doubt the existence of the Apollo landings, good for you for being skeptic-minded, but there is empirical evidence that, without a doubt, prove Apollo landed on the moon (moon rocks, mirrors left for laser-tracking, Soviet acknowledgement). Now borrowing from your sentence structure: Regardless of what America's intentions were, for the scientists and astronauts, it was about scientific achievement, not politics.

[Katyusha213]

@Manumascabrera "Gagarin flew into space, but didn't see any god there" - Nikita Khrushchev.

Reality is, Khrushchev made that remark as propaganda, though it's understandable why people would think Gagarin said it (*in mock authoritative voice* "COMMUNISM!"), that is until the fact he was baptized in a orthodox church is noted.

[dsarnold]

@Pseudologic

You'll find Gagarin was hardly in it for scientific purposes.

If the lunar landings existed at all? Laughable.