Time travel hasn’t been invented yet. If it had, I would love to be able to go back in time to 12 April 1961, when Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to orbit the Earth in his Vostock I spacecraft. The flight only lasted 108 minutes and he only completed one orbit of the Earth but it represented the first time that a human had ventured into space. While time travel has yet to be invented, we can celebrate the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s spaceflight through a unique film ‘first orbit‘. According to the film’s website, astronaut Paolo Nespoli used a high definition video camera to capture a view of the Earth from the International Space Station which matches what Yuri Gagarin would have seen through the window of the spacecraft as he orbited the Earth.
The free film is being released via Youtube this week (Tuesday) on the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s flight. More information at the ‘first orbit’ website.
