First Orbit (2011)

Directed by

Christopher Riley

Genre

documentary film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 45m

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film uses footage from the International Space Station to recreate the view Yuri Gagarin had during the first human spaceflight in 1961. It combines this with original mission audio and a musical score.

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What happens

First Orbit is a 2011 feature-length, experimental documentary film about Vostok 1, the first human space flight around the Earth. By matching the orbit of the International Space Station to that of Vostok 1 as closely as possible, in terms of ground track and time of day, documentary filmmaker Christopher Riley and European Space Agency astronaut Paolo Nespoli were able to film the view that Yuri Gagarin saw on his pioneering 1961 orbital space flight. This new footage was cut together with the original Vostok 1 mission audio recordings sourced from the Russian State Archive of Scientific and Technical Documentation. The film features the music of composer Philip Sheppard. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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