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First Flight to the Stars is a 1961 Hungarian vintage movie poster.
First Flight to the Stars (original title: Pervyy reys k zvyozdam) is 1961 Soviet Russian film.
The film tells about the history of the Soviet space program and the April 12, 1961 orbital flight of the world's first manned spacecraft-satellite "Vostok" with pilot-cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on board.
Directors: Dmitriy Bogolepov, Ilya Kopalin, Grigory Kosenko
Writers: Georgiy Kublitskiy, Yevgeniy Ryabchikov
Stars: Yuri Gagarin, Leonid Khmara
(source: imdb.com)
Vostok 1 (Russian: Восток, lit. 'East' or 'Orient') was the first spaceflight of the Vostok programme and the first human orbital spaceflight in history. The Vostok 3KA space capsule was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome on 12 April 1961, with Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin aboard, making him the first human to reach orbital velocity around the Earth and to complete a full orbit around the Earth. The orbital spaceflight consisted of a single orbit around Earth which skimmed the upper atmosphere at 169 kilometers (105 miles; 91 nautical miles) at its lowest point. The flight took 108 minutes from launch to landing. Gagarin parachuted to the ground separately from his capsule after ejecting at 7 km (23,000 ft) altitude. (source: wikipedia.org)
