Vostok-1 launch (Humankind's first spaceflight)

Vostok-1 launch (Humankind's first spaceflight)

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• vostok-1
• vostok
• korolev
• korolyov
• space
• espacio

[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!

[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

[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...

[leah08leah]

EAR RAPE

[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 ***

[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.

[RoboticTable]

@lolvks A fair point

[Grant691]

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

[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.

[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.

[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.