Vostok-1: First Man in Space

Yuri Gagarin is launched into space, a compilation of several videos.

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• Russia
• Space
• Vostok
• Gagarin
• Rocket

[DonPMitchell]

Declassified CIA report:

"Then on 12 April 1961 Sputnik 11 was launched, and 83-megacycle transmissions were detected twenty minutes later as the spacecraft passed over Alaska. Only 58 minutes after launch NSA reported that reliable real-time readout of the signals clearly showed a man and showed him movig. Thus before Gagarin had completed his historic 108-minute flight, intelligence components had technical confirmation that a Soviet cosmonaut was in orbit and that he was alive."

[borishnikov]

at frames 3:13 to 3:15 there is 2 stranges objects (glitchs)?besides the rocket?! can someone tell if i'm wrong?

[DonPMitchell]

Looks like a piece of debris blown off the launch pad. The camera is in the fire pit below the pad.

[AtlantisSaturn]

// The Germans were sent home around 1949

Bullshit. The Germans remained in USSR until 1957 (at least), and some of them have even asissted at the launch of R-7.

// The R-7 was not even remotely a

// combination of German rockets.

Look betetr on it. R-7 is a combination of R-10, R-14 and R14a - the rockets made by the Germans for Soviets, with 20 German engines on the first stage.

[DonPMitchell]

You're basing your comments on a 1960 anti-communist diatribe (Keller's book). Nobody in the west knew reliable details about the Soviet rocket program then. They were just buys trying to make excuses for how the Russians put a satellite into orbit.

Read Asif Siddiqi's books if you want to learn some real history.

[toulon33480399]

In your face NASA!!!!!!!!!!

[Vader32]

Yuri Gagarin is a true hero!

[mrdontrump]

Буржуи налетели.. Гагарин наш молодец!

[The420sk8]

HBD!

[DonPMitchell]

@mshamiltonohio Look at the PBS documentary "Sputnik Declassified". The story is more complex, because the USA was developing the Corona spy satellites, and Eisenhower didn't want to say anything about that. He was much more knowledgeable than he appeared to be in public.

[oritxupolite]

@DonPMitchell Who is the composer and the name of the music playing in the video? Maybe Shostakovich ?

[Maxwell2323]

The Russian stuff was great looking indeed.

[chocolatebicycle]

Fantastic footage! It' a shame a lot of people don't realise how talented Sergey Korolyov and his team were. Sure the Germans created the first serious rockets, but this is becuase of the extensive funding given to Von Brauns team during WW2.

With funding, Russia would of been able to create there own rockets, as demonstrated by the R-7. A testement to the genius of Sergey Korolyov is the fact that the Russian Space program never recovered from his death in 1966.

[Elvenass]

Whatever you choose to believe, both this, the apollo 11 moonlanding and all space explorations to date are great moments in human history. And the men (and women) who made those things posible, are truly heroes of mankind.

It doesent matter wher their from.

Long live humanity.

Long live science without borders.