REAL LIFE NEWS: REMEMBERING YURI GAGARINby HazedIt cannot have escaped your notice that last week was the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's space flight, when he became the first person to venture into space. Consequently, there have been a lot of news articles about his achievement in all the newspapers and online. One interesting development is the plan to make a movie about his historic mission. Christopher Riley's documentary "First Orbit" will blend together Gagarin's voice, news reports from the day, and hi-definition footage from the ISS tracking the route of the spaceship Vostok. This article shows a trailer for the film, and gives some details of how the ISS took that footage. Meanwhile, New Scientist magazine has published a transcript of the messages exchanged by Yuri and mission control just being lift-off, and during his voyage. Amazing. |