Entertainment For Lively Minds
Yuri Gagarin - 50 years of human spaceflight.
Posted by Adman on 12 April 2011 - 9:53am.
First Orbit is a feature-length, experimental documentary film about Vostok 1, the first manned 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 path 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 orbital space flight. This new footage was cut together with the original Vostok 1 mission audio recordings sourced from the Russian State Archive. The film features an original musical score by composer Philip Sheppard.
You can watch it here:
Trailer here:
Happy Gagarin Day!
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Watched some of it
earlier I love the slow pace like art piece . I do love the story of Yuri's life seems to show makind at our worst but also at our best the whole cabbages to cosmonauts thing helps that he seems to have taken the whole thing with grace and charm. Also anniversary of the first shuttle flight today too!
Shuttle flight...
I didn't realise about the shared anniversary.
Doubly exciting...
I remember watching the launch, I was 11 years old. All I wanted to do after that was become a pilot and go into space. Part of me still does.
First shuttle launch.
...and landing.
I don't know if anyone knows Philip Sheppard's music...
But the soundtrack to 'First Orbit' is really beautiful. It is called 'Cloud Music,' not available on Spotify, but his soundtrack to 'Henry - Mind Of A Tyrant' (http://open.spotify.com/user/doublevisionary/playlist/11MUsyrxvEVXexTBtc...)is, and that's great too. 'Cloud Music' is available on iTunes.
This clip is from Philip Sheppard's soundtrack to 'In The Shadow Of The Moon,' which gives a good sense of his music.
Thanks for that
had been tempted to post that one.
Also delighted to see that Vienna has been marking the anniversary with an art exhibition:
http://www.kunsthallewien.at/cgi-bin/event/event.pl?id=4188&lang=en
Excellent...
I like the 'Global Globes' ... I wonder if that would fit in my garden ... ?
Would fit in some
Other great items include the life size recreation of Gagarin's office, the post-Soviet Gagarin CCCP helmet with Barbie's head etc etc.
There will also be a space toy show with the wonderful title "Wind me up Scotty" ...
Further reading :
Well worth a look, particularly if you've read Moondust :
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Starman-Truth-Behind-Legend-Gagarin/dp/140881554...
And for more detail than you could probably ever want
see Asif Siddqi's "Challenge to Apollo" here:
http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4408pt1.pdf
Meanwhile, here's something else from Gagarin's point of view ;-)
[note to self---must get that live DVD].