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50 years ago today a historic event took place and here on Hacker Public Radio we take time out to celebrate the occaision with recordings of the Radio communications between Yuri Gagarin, Sergei Korolev and Ground Control during launch. Then we listen to a 45 rpm record at the Soviet Exhibition in London in 1961.
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After this we listen to the The flight of Vostok 1 as described on Wikipedia <A HREF="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vostok_1">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vostok_1</A> and play a promo for the film "first orbit" <A HREF="https://www.firstorbit.org/watch-the-film">https://www.firstorbit.org/watch-the-film</A> been released as part of Yuris Night <A HREF="https://www.yurisnight.net/">https://www.yurisnight.net/</A> a world wide celebration of the event.
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To close with the biography of Yuri Gagarin from <A HREF="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Gagarin">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Gagarin</A>.
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<h3>Radio communications between Yuri Gagarin, Sergei Korolev and Ground Control </h3>
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<h3>Yuri Gagarin in Space (English Commentary) from a 45 rpm record at the Soviet Exhibition in London in 1961</h3>
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<h3>First Orbit</h3>
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<h3>Star Trek Theme Faith of The Heart Remake: Sputnik & yuri gagarin</h3>
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