Doctor Tests blood Pressure and Heart Pulsation of Yuri Gagarin
"I feel excellent", says Yuri Gagarin, world's first space traveller, when the doctor tests him for blood pressure and heart pulsation.
A little more than a month ago on April 12, 1961 the first pilot-cosmonaut, here of Soviet Union Yuri Gagarin ...
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From the Height of a Cosmic Flight
One of the photographs taken by USSR pilot-cosmonaut Gherman Titov during his cosmic flight on board of "Vostok-2" spaceship.
The porthole of the "Vzor" optic equipment through which Gherman Titov took pictures of the earth. The pointer on the gla...
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Gagarin Greeted By Polish Leaders
Soviet spaceman Yuri Gagarin (left) meets Chairman of the Polish Council of State Aleksander Zawadski (right) and Polish Premier Wladyslaw Gomulka during his visit to Warsaw in 1961.
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Gagarin Steps from Plane After Space-Flight
Moscow: Major Yuri Gagarin, the world's first spaceman, steps from a plane, smiling broadly, after his successful flight through the stratosphere. This official picture was released by the Soviet Union tonight. He is dressed in a conventional flyi...
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Gagarin and Prime Minister Macmillion
Yuri Gagarin visited Prime Minister Harold Macmillan at Admiralty House on July 13th just before visiting the Air Ministry.
Could the P.M. be remarking on Yuri's flight? That is how it appears as Mr. Macmillan points skywards.
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