Yuri Gagarin Radio communications

On April 12, 1961, the USSR pilot-cosmonaut Yuri Alekseevich Gagarin made the world’s first manned flight into outer space on the Vostok spacecraft. The launch of the spacecraft took place from the Soviet Baikonur Cosmodrome at 09:07:00 Moscow time (06:07:00 UTC). The spacecraft completed one revolution around the Earth and landed at 10:55 am (07:55:00 UTC) near the village of Smelovka, Saratov Region. The flight duration was 108 minutes. 1:08 - Closing hatch #1 1:55 - check communication from the bunker 2:57 - Gagarin whistles the song “Lilies of the valley“ 4:17 - Cosmonaut Popovich sends greetings from the team 5:29 - Checking the connection with Sergei Korolev 6:59 - Gagarin sings a song 7:20 - Sergey Korolev reports a problem in the hatch close signaling device 8:33 - Hourly readiness announced 9:37 - Kamanin asks Gagarin to look at the package (manual control codes) 10:22 - 50 minutes readiness announced 11:23 - Gagarin asks to turn on the music 13:35 - Gagrin listens to Utyosov’s song 13:46 - Checked the tightness 16:05 - Gagarin takes the starting position for registering physiological functions 16:31 - Withdrawal of the rocket installer 18:22 - 15 minutes readiness announced 19:47 - 10 minutes readiness announced 20:17 - 5 minutes readiness announced 21:44 - Gagarin sings songs 22:24 - 1 minutes readiness announced 23:10 - Key to start! 24:33 - Ignition! 24:50 - Let’s go! Poehali! Поехали! 26:28 - The first stage worked out 26:57 - Head fairing reset. I see the earth! 29:09 - The second stage worked out 34:06 - Undocking with carrier 40:38 - I’m at Apogee! 42:29 - Came out of the shadow of the earth! 44:45 - About Yuri Gagarin’s flight
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