Having just watched the video above, it is beyond perplexing to me that Yuri Gagarin isn’t as well known as he should be. After all, the man was The First Human Being in Space.
Sanitized indeed and yes still fascinating. Some how I don't think the "whole" world were celebrating every successfully mission. I'm a third of the way into this. Awesome stuff. The Russians did an amazing job documenting their space program.
A college professor of mine—a total left-wing shill—who was a kid in 1957 said his school principal was sobbing over the school intercom while breaking the news over Sputnik! Hilarious! He obviously didin’t know—to quote Bob Hope, that the US’ German scientists were better than the Soviets’ German scientists!
I admire and respect what the Soviets accomplished in getting into space first; especially since their country was burnt to a cinder in WWII (look it up, millennials)—with 30 million(!) dead.
Just happened upon two recent films with the USSR's space program as their backdrop. I haven't seen them yet. I don't think either of them is on R1 DVD or Blu.
Both films look visually appealing and are of a subject that deserves to be better known.
Comrades, have any of you seen these films? What did you think of them?
Capelight Pictures and MPI Home Video will bring to Blu-ray Dmitriy Kiselev's thriller Spacewalker a.k.a. Vremya pervykh (2017), starring Evgeniy Mironov, Konstantin Khabenskiy, and Vladimir Ilin. The release will be available for purchase on January 19.
Synopsis: March 1965. In the heat of the Cold War, the USA and the USSR are competing for supremacy in space. What both superpowers aim for in this race, is to be the first to have a man walk in outer space. To accomplish that, no price is too high and no risk is too great. Now it's up to the unlikely duo of a seasoned war veteran and a hot-headed test-pilot to fulfill this mission. Two men in a tiny spaceship, without proper testing, facing the complete unknown. They were supposed to do what no man has done before – and no man imagined what would happen next…
Lots of shaky cam, but it’s better than 10 years in Siberia, though some of the actors and their “American” accents deserve a sentence of 20 years there.
Having just watched the video above, it is beyond perplexing to me that Yuri Gagarin isn’t as well known as he should be. After all, the man was The First Human Being in Space.
Gagarin is very well known. Not Neil Armstrong famous, perhaps, but not that far behind. Especially for us Norwegian kids in our early 40s, his name has an extra ring of familiarity, because in the late 80s and early 90s, many of us wore Gagarin sweaters and T-shirts without even knowing who Gagarin was. Trying to find pics online, but that particular brand of fashion seems to have disappeared from the face of the earth.
Gagarin is very well known. Not Neil Armstrong famous, perhaps, but not that far behind. Especially for us Norwegian kids in our early 40s, his name has an extra ring of familiarity, because in the late 80s and early 90s, many of us wore Gagarin sweaters and T-shirts without even knowing who Gagarin was. Trying to find pics online, but that particular brand of fashion seems to have disappeared from the face of the earth.
Gagarin fashions? How bourgeois! That’s fascinating.
Given the political climate of those years, I can understand why we in the US didn’t exactly warm to Soviet space accomplishments, but it still had to have been mesmerizing to kids growing up here to have known about Gagarin’s epic flight.
This sounds like a question for Howard L, our “Early 1960s Man on the Scene”!
Having just watched the video above, it is beyond perplexing to me that Yuri Gagarin isn’t as well known as he should be. After all, the man was The First Human Being in Space.
Gagarin is very well known. Not Neil Armstrong famous, perhaps.
Except most Americans (and maybe the rest of the world) think John Glenn was the first American into space!
There's an interesting documentary on Amazon Prime, called The Cosmonaut Coverup, which alleges that Vladimir Ilyushin, was the first man in space, not Yuri Gargarin.
There's an interesting documentary on Amazon Prime, called The Cosmonaut Coverup, which alleges that Vladimir Ilyushin, was the first man in space, not Yuri Gargarin.
Every—and I mean *every*—major historical event has a conspiracy theory.
There's an interesting documentary on Amazon Prime, called The Cosmonaut Coverup, which alleges that Vladimir Ilyushin, was the first man in space, not Yuri Gargarin.
Every—and I mean *every*—major historical event has a conspiracy theory.
There's two other conspiracies- the first female cosmonaut to actually go into space died on her flight and it was covered up, and another mission where three cosmonauts died on their mission.
