First Orbit - The Movie

Hey, Folks!

Yuri Gagarin was a Soviet cosmonaut. He was the first human being to travel into outer space and to orbit the Earth making a 108 minute orbital flight in the Vostok 1 spacecraft, on April 12 1961, during the Space Race. Speaking of that, the Space Race was an epic competition between the Soviet Union and the United States for supremacy in space exploration during the Cold War.

As a part of celebrations for the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's flight into space, the director Christopher Riley made a recreation of that outstanding moment. The film combines a new video footage taken from the International Space Station (ISS) with Gagarin's original mission audio and a new musical score by Philip Sheppard.

All things considered, I hope you enjoy it!




"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

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  1. Anonymous2/13/2012

    ‎Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

    Carl Sagan

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    1. A brilliant quote from one of the greatest visionaries of our time. Thanks!

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  2. Anonymous2/13/2012

    Eu chorei... pode isso Arnaldo? Acho que é a TPM. Bjim da Cris. :*

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    1. Pode sim, sua linda! Outro beijo! ;-)

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  3. Anonymous2/13/2012

    lá de cima é tão calmo enquanto aqui em baixo é tudo bagunçado!!! não qeuria trazer discussao religiosa pra cá, mais é impossível nao pensar em Deus nessas horas, ñ é possível que não exista um motivo pra pra estarmos aqui, ra tudo isso ter acontecido.

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    1. Realmente lá de cima é tudo maravilhoso e calmo, enquanto aqui embaixo... bem... Sobre a crença na existência ou não de um deus (qualquer deus), é uma opção estritamente individual. Prefiro não entrar nesse mérito. Abraços.

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