Where Is Gagarin's Vostok 1 Capsule Now

Where Is Gagarin's Vostok 1 Capsule Now Nearly 300 kilometres from where it was meant to come down, a scorched metal ball landed in a field near the Volga on 12 April 1961, and nobody was inside it. This film follows Yuri Gagarin's Vostok 1 capsule and its identical twin, from that morning to where each of them ended up. Subscribe for the next spacecraft hunt. Chapters 0:00 Landing empty 1:10 Building the ball 3:38 Climbing too high 4:43 Spinning over Africa 5:56 Falling seven kilometres 7:58 Meeting the forester's wife 9:31 Hiding how he landed 11:46 Going the other way 13:54 Turning up in Voronezh 15:07 Looking back Archive: NASA, the Smithsonian and Universal-International Newsreel (public domain). Wikimedia Commons: Pulux11, Ilegri, A.Morgunovskaya, Insider, Ekaterina Mirfasolova, Dmitry Makeev, Stanislav Kozlovskiy, Nikolai Bulykin, Planet Labs, Christo, Tempe, Dmitry Rozhkov, ИринаЯ, ОЕлисеева, Anastasia Vasilevna, Pavel Tatarintsev, Дементьева Роман, Marc-Lautenbacher, Michał Derela, Artyom Svetlov, Blekitna Owca, Michael Barera, Dmitriy Konstantinov, Ivtorov, Shakko, RG72, Smo ok, Tatyanakorneeva and Vyacheslav Bukharov (CC BY-SA 4.0); ТАСС, Минобороны РФ / РИА Новости, Stolbovsky, mos.ru, Главархив Москвы, ТАСС / Минобороны РФ, Минобороны РФ, В. Жихаренко / ТАСС, Музей космонавтики / Главархив Москвы, VladimirPF, Artem.G, DonSimon, Arslan864, Vintage Fan 5678, tatarstan.ru, Dmitriy Seleznev and Главархив Москвы / Музей космонавтики (CC BY 4.0); SiefkinDR, HPH, Andrew Gray, Yuri Geler, Dmitry A. Mottl, Pline, SeanMack, Concierge.2C, Le.Loup.Gris, Flagoved, Janine Chedid, Mike1979 Russia, G-Max, Морозов Л.Н, Timur Mamedrzaev and Andrey Butko (CC BY-SA 3.0); michael clarke stuff, Alan Wilson, linearclassifier, Sergey Rodovnichenko and Tim Evanson (CC BY-SA 2.0); Gennady Grachev and Allan Lee (CC BY 2.0); olegbel, Альберт Исмаилов, ALEXLESS and SerBor (CC BY 3.0); Errabee (CC BY-SA 2.5). Music: Epidemic Sound. Two illustrative images, of the forester's wife and her granddaughter about half a minute and eight minutes in, were generated with AI because no photograph of that morning exists; every other photograph and film clip is genuine archive. The thumbnail was generated with AI too. For the full story of the man himself, from the farm to the launch pad and beyond, Starman by Jamie Doran and Piers Bizony is the book to read: https://link.amazon/B0gJuDyR8 As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. A Vostok capsule of the same design that carried Gagarin, as a print from this film: https://forgottenorbitfilms.com/vostok-1