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Vostok 1 flight using Orbiter

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Uploaded by on Apr 19, 2008

Simulated Vostok 1 flight using Orbiter Space Flight simulator.

Vostok 1 was the flight that carried the first human into space, Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin into earth orbit, on April 12, 1961.

I took control of the R7 manually, to reach earth orbit. Most values are true to the original. This is not exactly a how-to but yes, can be used as reference for your own Vostok 1 attempts.

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  • wouldn't you remove the fairing before the staging and while in the atmosphere?

  • Honestly I forget when was the exact moment for fairing release. :) But I do know that it has to be later during ascent, if the air is thinner, otherwise the drag would've still been substantial. But thanks for noting that.

  • Very nice! I'm Waiting for part 2!

  • Hey thanks :) I had some problems with the perigee but it was still good :) Yes I will do that soon, just trying to find a good stretch of time for recording the re-entry video.

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  • GREAT!

    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

  • Can you make a simple to understand guide to using this simulator?

    Cause i cant understand it!

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  • I love how I can hear the Internationale in the background

  • the capsule looks like a giant ping-pong ball hahahahahahaahahaahaahaahahaha­hhehehehehe he

  • you could use the baikonour surface tiles

  • what a priceless tool for teaching history! the space age space race is the most interesting era of the cold war! 5-stars! /@ milwaukee

  • tell me please the controls :/ i cant find them

  • i landed on neptune lol

  • russıa is huge country like pacific ocean. what a chance

  • The same question...

  • If you crash you would just bounce... wich is kind of lame... i could actually LAND on jupiter... wich is made of Gas lol! SUCKS!!! i wanted to be crushed by it's gravitation TT-TT

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