The Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin made history as the world's first man in space on April 2nd, 1961. His one-orbit trip on board the Vostok-1 module lasted 108 minutes.
Comprising telecined material from 2 film reels, this video contains the following material:
[A] Flight control preparing to send Gagarin into space; ignition, Gagarin blasts off; Gagarin's landing-spot, monument; Gagarin at home and at work;
Titov in Vostok 2; Gagarin embraces first group spacemen; Belyaev and Leonov in space; Leonov spacewalks; Soyuz spacecraft coupled by space-walking astronauts; Soyuz rocket blasts off; Luna 17 and Lunokhod blast off; simulation of Lunokhod on moon; spacewalk [B/W, 1961-1970]
[B] Gagarin's return to Moscow; Gagarin in Red Square; Gagarin with family on holiday at Sochi on the Black Sea; Gagarin in london leaving Buckingham Palace [B/W, 1961].

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