First Orbit

<p><i>First Orbit</i> is a 2011 feature-length, experimental documentary film about <a href="/facts/Vostok_1/447q95TW">Vostok 1</a>, the first human space flight around the <a href="/facts/Earth/HLLmDfj0">Earth</a>. By matching the orbit of the <a href="/facts/International_Space_Station/VNPUBz9m">International Space Station</a> to that of Vostok 1 as closely as possible, in terms of <a href="/facts/Ground_track/HDgwB9RP">ground track</a> and time of day, documentary filmmaker <a href="/facts/Christopher_Riley/V5XMh0AU">Christopher Riley</a> and <a href="/facts/European_Space_Agency/L8YRNV0C">European Space Agency</a> astronaut <a href="/facts/Paolo_Nespoli/ntI6RyrP">Paolo Nespoli</a> were able to film the view that <a href="/facts/Yuri_Gagarin/ucwoarjc">Yuri Gagarin</a> saw on his pioneering 1961 orbital space flight. This new footage was cut together with the original Vostok 1 mission audio recordings sourced from the Russian State Archive of Scientific and
Technical Documentation. The film features the music of composer Philip Sheppard.
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First Orbit