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Re-Creating the First Human Spaceflight Experience

Posted March 25, 2011 10:43 AM

From Wired Top Stories:

A collaboration between ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli and filmmaker Christopher Riley hopes to show what Russian astronaut Yuri Gagarin -- the first human to go into space and orbit the planet -- saw on April 12, 1961.

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Re: Re-Creating the First Human Spaceflight Experience

03/25/2011 12:09 PM

Well, technically, Gagarin never completed a full orbit. So I'd say the first man to actually 'orbit' the Earth was Gherman Titov.

Gagarin landed west of the launch point: [Diagram from Wikipedia.]

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