First Orbit is a feature-length, experimental documentary film about Vostok 1, the first manned space flight around the Earth.
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By matching the orbit of the International Space Station to that of Vostok 1 as closely as possible, in terms of ground path and time of day, documentary filmmaker Christopher Riley and European Space Agency astronaut Paolo Nespoli were able to film the view that Yuri Gagarin saw on his pioneering orbital space flight.
William Orbit | orbit | Single-stage-to-orbit | Low Earth orbit | Geostationary orbit | geostationary orbit | Orbit | Orbit Jet | Orbit Books | Little Orbit the Astrodog and the Screechers from Outer Space | geosynchronous orbit | Earth's orbit | single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO) | Orbit of the Moon | Orbit Downloader | Orbit (anatomy) | low Earth orbit (LEO) | Low Earth Orbit | low Earth orbit | low earth orbit | Lissajous orbit | Geostationary transfer orbit | ArcelorMittal Orbit |
After completing its first orbit, a message from US President Dwight Eisenhower to the United Nations was transmitted from the Deal Test Site, an off-base transmission facility of Fort Monmouth, New Jersey and relayed to a ground station in Puerto Rico.
Shincheonji, Church of Jesus, the Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony (SCJ) is a religious movement founded by Lee Man-Hee on March 14, 1984 in South Korea, the year the Universe completed its first orbit according to church teachings and returned to its point of origin.