{"id":960,"date":"2011-04-12T21:52:28","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T21:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/?p=960"},"modified":"2011-04-12T21:58:08","modified_gmt":"2011-04-12T21:58:08","slug":"first-orbit-50-years-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/04\/12\/first-orbit-50-years-on\/","title":{"rendered":"First Orbit: 50 Years On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week marks 50 years since <a title=\"Yuri Gagarin\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gagarin\" target=\"_blank\">Yuri Gagarin<\/a> started man\u2019s ventures into space.\u00a0 To mark the occasion documentary makes <a title=\"Christopher Riley\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chris-riley.com\/biography.html\" target=\"_blank\">Christopher Riley<\/a> teamed up with the European Space Agency and the crew of the International Space Station to <a title=\"First Orbit\" href=\"http:\/\/www.firstorbit.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">recreate<\/a> Gagarin\u2019s first voyage.<\/p>\n<p>Original audio and video has been mixed with modern footage filmed by Paolo Nespoli on the ISS &#8211; which was following as closely as possible the path of Gagarin\u2019s Vostok 1 craft \u2013 to recreate what Gagarin would have seen 50 years ago. \u00a0It\u2019s particularly nice to hear Gagarin\u2019s obvious excitement from orbit!<\/p>\n<div id=\"scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:2c2946ac-5a5e-46a0-829a-3c410b53376f\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\" style=\"margin: 0px auto; width: 467px; display: block; float: none; padding: 0px;\">\n<div><object width=\"467\" height=\"262\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/RKs6ikmrLgg?hl=en&amp;hd=1\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"467\" height=\"262\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/RKs6ikmrLgg?hl=en&amp;hd=1\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nThe First Orbit site is here: <a title=\"http:\/\/www.firstorbit.org\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.firstorbit.org\/\">http:\/\/www.firstorbit.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week marks 50 years since Yuri Gagarin started man\u2019s ventures into space.  To mark the occasion documentary makes Christopher Riley teamed up with the European Space Agency and the crew of the International Space Station to recreate Gagarin\u2019s first voyage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,6],"tags":[469,133,379,170,470,241,468],"class_list":["post-960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-stuff","category-tech","tag-first-orbit","tag-history","tag-iss","tag-space","tag-vostok-1","tag-youtube","tag-yuri-gagarin","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=960"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":963,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions\/963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}