Hey everyone! I hope you've enjoyed the video - it was quite a challenge to make, compared to the Apollo one. It may not come as a surprise that finding detailed information on a top-secret USSR project from the height of the cold war is not particularly easy - who would've guessed? Most of the good information on Vostok and the early Soviet Space Program is also in Russian webpages - and none of us actually speak Russian, unfortunately. Images, and especially videos, are also quite hard to find. Most of the footage you see here was find not via google searches, but Yandex ones, frantically translating search terms and trying to figure out what I was looking at. Given all of this, I just wish to apologise beforehand - especially to our Russian viewers - if there was a mismatch between visuals and content, or any other mistakes. I hope we've managed to make this momentous occasion justice! :) P.s.: The fact he was able to put this good a video from the little footage we had is proof of how awesome Alasdair is! You rule, man!
Nothing to worry about! It was fantastic. You got everything right. At least, from my point of view. But the pronunciation of Russian words and names... Yeah.. But to be fair, I doubt that I myself speak English flawlessly
This would have been an excellent video even without those caveats; with them, it's nothing short of astounding. I got chills watching this. Amazing job!
The only issue with Russian pronunciation that I think should be corrected is Poyekhali is pronounced more like "po-YE-khal-i", with the kh being pronounced as a hard h and not a k (I don't actually know the IPA so that's the best approximation I can give)
Once the lecture cosmonaut Valentin Lebedev was asked: - And what is the feat of Gagarin? Cosmonaut Lebedev sighed, looked good-naturedly at the audience and replied: - Have you seen a 10-storey building? Everyone nodded. - Well, imagine that all this is fuel. And upstairs you are sitting in a small ball. And below they set fire to them with the words: Yura, you will definitely come back, we have calculated everything!
Yes, you basically sit on a huge, (hopefully) slowly exploding bomb that shakes you so much that you are in danger of biting of your tongue. I don't think I had that courage.
A fun fact: The letters "СССР" ("USSR") were painted onto Gagarin's helmet at the last moment, as there was a concern that should he land in populated area, he might be mistaken for a downed American spy plane pilot.
@@AttilaAsztalos Yeah, it was the reasonable thing to do, I just kinda love the implication that in this scenario him speaking Russian would be taken as an enemy ploy, but the letters would be an irrefutable proof of his origin.
@@ГлебЧерепанов-з3ч Figures. I mean, what kind of prideless vermin you'd have to be to FAKE the "CCCP" inscription on your pilot's helmet, isn't it... :)))
@@AttilaAsztalos true. Not hard to imagine him being mistaken for the pilot of a downed American U-2 spy plane. "But I am Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin!" "Sure you are."
@@ГлебЧерепанов-з3ч well, for whatever its worth, the was a lot of fan debate with the first Avengers movie over whether Natasha Romanov (Black Widow);should speak fluent English or have a noticeable Russian accent as she was a long-term deep cover Soviet spy.
Loved the video. I love how Yuri gagarin is loved and celebrated all across the world, even the US dispite him being from the USSR. Shows how space brings all of humanity togeather
Certain people are. The Soviet Union actually congratulated Armstrong, Aldrin & Collins when they came back from the Moon. What makes it even funnier than the Soviet Union didn't dispute their achievement since they saw it on their tracking radars but there are still people who think the Apollo missions were faked.
@@Perkelenaattori Also first dogs in orbit that returned had pups, and they gave one of them to daughter of US president. Also as case with Komarow proves Gagarin wasn't like rulers of USSR at all.
@@ImieNazwiskoOK Yes I know. He knew beforehand that Soyuz 1 was a piece of crap and knew Komarov would die so he wanted to take his place instead. Yuri was a good man.
Khrushchev was always a technology and gadget fan, so it makes sense things suddenly got going at his signature. Nice to see a shout out to the Vostok.
Gagarin too. These folks aren't just heroes of the Soviet Union... They are heros of humanity. PS: We all know heros aren't perfect, so no need to go there.
Korolev, tiche, he was effectively the Von Braun of the USSR, and if he'd had the resources of Von Braun, we could've done amazing things, not just the US or the USSR, but humanity collectively. Rest in peace Sergei, we're still traveling to space on your rockets.
Korolev flew first, so technically Von Braun is Korolev of the US. Plus, Korolev sent first artificial satellite, first living being and first human to orbit, as well as built hardware for first ever spacewalk. While he was alive USSR was ahead in spacerace, and he had way more resources than Von Braun up until mid 1960s. If anything, he is the reason US had to pour billions of dollars into NASA just to keep up
Credit where credit's due, the Russians have always been super enthusiastic about space and exploring out there and have accomplished amazing and great things.
Plus, most german engineers went to america (well, they definitely prefered to do so). So their ability to retro-engineer the leftovers and beat the americans is really impressive. They were late, without much people knowing much about the technology and yet did it anyway.
@@nmavrantzas 75 years of cold war propaganda, what do you expect? And the reason for that is simple - the most rich and powerful people in the world are bank oligarchs. Of course they will use all the media to demonize any system which can make them to lose power. Communism, socialism or even any change in capitalism that will drive it away from financial to something else and shift the balance from them to people that are actually productive, not just making money with money without actual goods involved.
It does help that communism maintained it was a natural response to the inevitable corruption of capitalism. The Soviets felt all they had to do was look cool and eventually all countries would join their workers paradise. Of course they didn't factor in that they were just as prone to corruption and making a workers hellhole. It's the little things that trip you up
Thank you, all involved, for this excellent production. The R-7's are icons of space exploration, even though they were originally built to be weapons of war. Something of a reverse-Nauvoo if you will.
Actually, like the V2, they were always better suited for space exploration than weapons (the same goes for the Atlas). Storing cryogenic propellants for war use is a bear....
There's something to admire about the Soviet designed spacecraft, it's a kind of paradoxical brutal elegance and complex simplicity that you don't see in American craft. The Soviets tried to make every stage work the same way and developed mechanisms to allow that, while the Americans invented new devices when encountering new problems.
Hey, they may have been simplistic, but they WORKED. Only recently a Russian spacecraft suffered a catastrophic failure - but the pilots were returned unharmed to ground to tell about it another day. That's more than can be said about US craft in similar circumstances...
@@10gamer64 Not recently though. I won't deny their failures swiped under the rug, but eventually they arrived at a solution that worked, while others had just failed - repeatedly...
@@10gamer64 When they look into the design of Shuttle to build their own shuttle, Soviet designers had to constantly ask "why? Why? Why?" Seeing how they completely redesigned the crew portion. I think there was record of the engineers tell that Shuttles are death traps waiting to happen
that's some communist proletarian propaganda. Gagarin was just sitting and chilling. True heroes are engineers who worked without weekends even after government sent them for decade in gulag without any evidences of crimes.
@@ДенисФедоров-ь3у but did those engineers sit on top of that rocket, knowing there was a better-than good chance it could explode and kill them? Yuri did.
@@andrewreynolds9371 i think almost any of them would if they had chance to. Also there were hundreds of brave and healthy pilots who could easily replace Gagarin without any changes to the outcome. But replacement of even one engineer could have led to a disaster or delay that could have brought Alan Shepard on the place of Gagarin.
@@ДенисФедоров-ь3у except Sheppard flew a suborbital flight, where Gagarin did a full orbit. America wouldn't come even with the Russians until John Glenn strapped his butt atop that Atlas booster. Try to get your facts straight, you'll look a little less like an idiot.
@@andrewreynolds9371 hes just a child dosent even understand this has nothing to do with communism, and if he has any idea of the process of looking for cosmonauts and training them, just another child with god complex, but lets be honest tho if socialism didnt come to russia they would be 10 years behind and we wouldent even have gagarin flying at that point
In Civilization: Beyond Earth, the Slavic Federation leader General Vadim Kozlov is supposed to be based on Gagarin, with his focus on space exploration and launching satellites. In the backstory, his speech just before the launch ends with Gagarin’s immortal word
In 2005 the BBC made a 4 part documentary called Space Race. It focused mainly on the Russian side of it. It was a very well done and acted out series. I'd strongly recommend it to anyone interested.
I'm Russian and that's so funny to hear russian words in the video. I must admit that pronunciation is quite understandable. Thanks for making the video!
something about the words "the first time a human ventured beyond the confines of our own world", and rocket launches in general, makes me emotional every time. I still can't fully explain it but I'm glad it happens
Its mind blowing how in just few years they managed to design such complex and reliable marvels of engineering with only pencils and sheets of paper. Even today with modern computers and software its immensely difficult and time consuming.
I’ve always loved the design and aesthetic of Soviet spacecraft. Something about it just looks so sturdy and dependable. Great video! I hope to see more about historical spacecraft sometime!
A little late but at least you recognized Yuri's flight unlike NASA which instead just talked about the test flight of the space shuttle since they both happened on April 12th in different years. 😑
@@anuvisraa5786 Few years ago, some americans were actually saying that Gagarin's flight doesn't count since he landed separately from the capsule. And instead it should be Alan Shepard given the title. You know, the guy who went up and straight down, without making a full orbit.
@@jur4x That is the point the proper term is cosmonaut since only the apolo guys made the trip ton an astro (so they are astronauts) but americans use ther proper therm because they want to make a narrative
Respect to all early space explorers. Those folks packed themselves up onto not so reliable ICBM platforms that were modified to carry a man rather than a weapon. Talk about bravery!
Both this and the Apollo video are genuinely some of the most inspiring pieces of film I've ever seen. It almost makes you forget that we'll probably all die in 15 years without ever realizing these dreams.
Sphere shape was also chosen due to having high volume/surface which reduced mass. This is also reason why modern Soyuz capsules when having flat bottom for more stable reentry they are still very spherical, which makes visible difference between Russian/soviet capsules and US capsules (which are more like cones).
@@ImieNazwiskoOK that is simply not true. The Russians built many rockets, but the Soyuz just kept being more efficient and more reliable than anything else. For twenty years, every American astronaut went to space in a Soyuz.
@@jimmyryan5880 Not 100% certain of that given that the solar wings would vibrate and AWFUL lot if you applied thrust to the center of mass. They could even shear off from the stress of the vibration. Not only that, but to escape its' current orbit you would need to add about root(2)*Vorb. Given the mass of the ISS, you'd need (on the basis of a paper napkin calculation I did in a bar one night) about 25 fully fueled SpaceX Heavy cores in expendable mode. And then lots and lots of fuel to do any maneuvering. The structure has just THAT MUCH inertia to it. Plus, for any deep space mission the crew requirements for radiation shielding and collision hazard mitigation are huge given the signature of the station (it being far more area per interior unit volume because of heat sinks and solar panels). In short... while it COULD be repurposed for long-duration deep space missions, it is a very poor candidate compared to purpose designed space ships like the Lunar Gateway or the NASA Mars mission designs.
Ah, thank you for doing this! A disproportionate number of my short stories take place on a planet called "Gagarin," orbiting Tau Ceti. Science Fiction needs more grounding in real science, and I appreciate your work here.
I love this content!!! Thank you so much. Also, I don't believe I have ever heard a better summary of USSR policy than "... A characteristic sense of pragmatism..."
Freaking awesome!!! Always was curious about the story behind the first man to make it to space. Didn't even know that to this day, the R7 design is still in use for the Soyuz rockets. Amazing!
One of the few things redeemable about STD is that they had a ship named after the Buran. Also the show Stargate had a ship named after Korolev, although it was Russian and was destroyed in the same episode it was introduced.
I love these real ship videos - they’re great, and have the same feel as your other videos, which highlights how immersive and real-feeling your other videos are! You guys rock. Keep up the awesomeness!
I'm digging the real world history sprinkled in with the awesome sci-fi content. Please bring more universes in like Battletech and other niche mythos.
Have you considered also making ship breakdown videos about historical spaceship concepts that were never realised? Sänger II, Venture Star, Project Daedalus, Kliper, … Quite a bit of content there that fans of hard sci-fi are going to love. But they don't usually have significant dates whose anniversaries provide an occasion. So you'd have to schedule them like your usual videos.
So fun thought but the game War Thunder published by Gaijin entertainment did a small event based on this an had a 1:1 scale model of the rocket takeoff ever so often on the 12th among other goodies for the 60th anniversary of the first man in space. So that's kinda cool for this.
This was awesome, I love seeing these real-world spacecraft get some love. By the by, would love to see you cover one of the Battletech Warships such as the Dart-class Light Cruiser or the McKenna-class Battleship.
With April 12 also being the 40th anniversary of the first Space Shuttle launch, can you do a video on it as well? I have many fond memories of that program.
Great job, interesting vid. It's nice to see a stand alone video about the Vostok 1. Usually Gagarin and the USSR's space flight achievement is used as a footnote in a story about the Moon landing. I'd like to see more about this.
Same *date*. Americans born before 1993 often got fed propaganda as kids that suggested the USA was first to accomplish pretty much everything and the schools made Gagarin out to be a footnote, so the distinction is important here. There are some people who might see this video and be disillusioned about something they believed for 30 years.
6:12 😂 USSR govt: We won't support development of human spaceflight. Korolev: Sure, but I need fully pressurized 2.3m in diameter capsule for my "reconnaissance satellite" 😏 ???? Gagarin: Poyehali!!!
When you look at how many members of Russia’s space program, in all of its iterations across the decades, were thrown in gulags - some of whom did noteworthy work from inside a cell - you develop a new respect for the resilience and diligence of the people involved.
From sci-fi ships that are able to travel to hyperspace, warp drives... super cool antimatter-powered interstellar spacecraft... To an intercontinental ballistic missile that carries a guy called the "commander" in it
great stuff. nice to see something on Soviet soace programme. I have watched so many documentaries on Mercury Gemini and Apollo. Soviet documentaries are sadly lacking
Gagarin was the backup pilot for Soyuz 1 and knew about the design problems. He showed up on launch day to try to take the place of his friend Vladimir Komarov, since he knew that the Soviet leaders would rather scrub the flight than risk his life. Unfortunately, Komarov didn’t want to risk his friend’s life despite knowing the mission was doomed and chose to fly. The main parachute failed to deploy and the backup got tangled, so he slammed to the ground at 40 m/s. There’s an apocryphal story about his final transmission involving curses directed towards engineers and leadership as well as a conversation with his wife, but most historians dispute that it happened
The show For All Mankind is set in an alternate timeline in which Sergei korolev lives at and the Space Race continued into the 1980s. By 1983, the Americans and Soviets have cool new spacecraft that should be covered like the Sea Dragon rocket, the Buran shuttle and the NERVA equipped Pathfinder shuttle.
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Hey everyone!
I hope you've enjoyed the video - it was quite a challenge to make, compared to the Apollo one.
It may not come as a surprise that finding detailed information on a top-secret USSR project from the height of the cold war is not particularly easy - who would've guessed?
Most of the good information on Vostok and the early Soviet Space Program is also in Russian webpages - and none of us actually speak Russian, unfortunately.
Images, and especially videos, are also quite hard to find. Most of the footage you see here was find not via google searches, but Yandex ones, frantically translating search terms and trying to figure out what I was looking at.
Given all of this, I just wish to apologise beforehand - especially to our Russian viewers - if there was a mismatch between visuals and content, or any other mistakes. I hope we've managed to make this momentous occasion justice! :)
P.s.: The fact he was able to put this good a video from the little footage we had is proof of how awesome Alasdair is! You rule, man!
Nothing to worry about! It was fantastic. You got everything right. At least, from my point of view. But the pronunciation of Russian words and names... Yeah..
But to be fair, I doubt that I myself speak English flawlessly
Because coincidentally it was 20 years to the day after Gagarin's flight, it's also the week of the 40th anniversary of Columbia's STS-1 mission.
This would have been an excellent video even without those caveats; with them, it's nothing short of astounding. I got chills watching this. Amazing job!
The only issue with Russian pronunciation that I think should be corrected is Poyekhali is pronounced more like "po-YE-khal-i", with the kh being pronounced as a hard h and not a k (I don't actually know the IPA so that's the best approximation I can give)
Great
Once the lecture cosmonaut Valentin Lebedev was asked:
- And what is the feat of Gagarin?
Cosmonaut Lebedev sighed, looked good-naturedly at the audience and replied:
- Have you seen a 10-storey building?
Everyone nodded.
- Well, imagine that all this is fuel. And upstairs you are sitting in a small ball. And below they set fire to them with the words: Yura, you will definitely come back, we have calculated everything!
Gold
Yes, you basically sit on a huge, (hopefully) slowly exploding bomb that shakes you so much that you are in danger of biting of your tongue.
I don't think I had that courage.
and they really did.
and he really did, too.
A fun fact: The letters "СССР" ("USSR") were painted onto Gagarin's helmet at the last moment, as there was a concern that should he land in populated area, he might be mistaken for a downed American spy plane pilot.
I mean... considering the pressure suit... that's not a completely unreasonable concern.
@@AttilaAsztalos Yeah, it was the reasonable thing to do, I just kinda love the implication that in this scenario him speaking Russian would be taken as an enemy ploy, but the letters would be an irrefutable proof of his origin.
@@ГлебЧерепанов-з3ч Figures. I mean, what kind of prideless vermin you'd have to be to FAKE the "CCCP" inscription on your pilot's helmet, isn't it... :)))
@@AttilaAsztalos true. Not hard to imagine him being mistaken for the pilot of a downed American U-2 spy plane. "But I am Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin!" "Sure you are."
@@ГлебЧерепанов-з3ч well, for whatever its worth, the was a lot of fan debate with the first Avengers movie over whether Natasha Romanov (Black Widow);should speak fluent English or have a noticeable Russian accent as she was a long-term deep cover Soviet spy.
When a basic design is still being used 60 years later, now that's engineering.
soyuz go brrrrrr
B-52 go brrr
Let's be fair: Russian space program is nearly dead now
@@ImieNazwiskoOK it's not dead, it's just slow and heavily corrupted, and with an idiot in charge
AK-47 go brrr
Loved the video. I love how Yuri gagarin is loved and celebrated all across the world, even the US dispite him being from the USSR. Shows how space brings all of humanity togeather
Certain people are. The Soviet Union actually congratulated Armstrong, Aldrin & Collins when they came back from the Moon. What makes it even funnier than the Soviet Union didn't dispute their achievement since they saw it on their tracking radars but there are still people who think the Apollo missions were faked.
@@Perkelenaattori *FAKE NEWS*
There a song made after him it gagarin by psb a british rock band
@@Perkelenaattori Also first dogs in orbit that returned had pups, and they gave one of them to daughter of US president.
Also as case with Komarow proves Gagarin wasn't like rulers of USSR at all.
@@ImieNazwiskoOK Yes I know. He knew beforehand that Soyuz 1 was a piece of crap and knew Komarov would die so he wanted to take his place instead. Yuri was a good man.
Khrushchev was always a technology and gadget fan, so it makes sense things suddenly got going at his signature. Nice to see a shout out to the Vostok.
Thanks for bringing up Tsiolkovsky and Korolyev. Proud to hear this.
Gagarin too. These folks aren't just heroes of the Soviet Union... They are heros of humanity.
PS: We all know heros aren't perfect, so no need to go there.
Korolyev was a true hero, a man who climbed out the hell of the gulag and reached the heavens of space
Nothing like commies "acquiring" foreign technology.
😁
Tsiolkovsky sounds so interesting to read up on. The man was researching rocket mechanics before even the first powered flight
@@thewhitekingofn3580 lol its not the soviets that had a nazi as the head of their space programme
Korolev, tiche, he was effectively the Von Braun of the USSR, and if he'd had the resources of Von Braun, we could've done amazing things, not just the US or the USSR, but humanity collectively. Rest in peace Sergei, we're still traveling to space on your rockets.
Korolev flew first, so technically Von Braun is Korolev of the US. Plus, Korolev sent first artificial satellite, first living being and first human to orbit, as well as built hardware for first ever spacewalk. While he was alive USSR was ahead in spacerace, and he had way more resources than Von Braun up until mid 1960s. If anything, he is the reason US had to pour billions of dollars into NASA just to keep up
If his time in the Gulag didnt damage his health the USSR might have made it to the moon, thats basically what for all mankind is about
@@jimmyryan5880 the USSR actually did send a mission to orbit the moon, and did so successfully I believe. They just never got to land on it
@@lord_scrubington never a manned one but they sent orbiters and landers. They sent turtles into lunar orbit and returned them
@@Joesolo13 soviet turtlenuts LUL are they dead or are they still alive ?
Credit where credit's due, the Russians have always been super enthusiastic about space and exploring out there and have accomplished amazing and great things.
Plus, most german engineers went to america (well, they definitely prefered to do so). So their ability to retro-engineer the leftovers and beat the americans is really impressive. They were late, without much people knowing much about the technology and yet did it anyway.
It was hard to escape Earth's gravity, but it's REALLY HARD to escape anti-commuinism. Even in supposedly scientific videos.
@@nmavrantzas 75 years of cold war propaganda, what do you expect? And the reason for that is simple - the most rich and powerful people in the world are bank oligarchs. Of course they will use all the media to demonize any system which can make them to lose power. Communism, socialism or even any change in capitalism that will drive it away from financial to something else and shift the balance from them to people that are actually productive, not just making money with money without actual goods involved.
It does help that communism maintained it was a natural response to the inevitable corruption of capitalism. The Soviets felt all they had to do was look cool and eventually all countries would join their workers paradise.
Of course they didn't factor in that they were just as prone to corruption and making a workers hellhole. It's the little things that trip you up
@@nickburton9366 That... That's 100% inaccurate. Congratulations, it must have been hard to come up with such a completely counterfactual statement!
Thank you, all involved, for this excellent production. The R-7's are icons of space exploration, even though they were originally built to be weapons of war. Something of a reverse-Nauvoo if you will.
Actually, like the V2, they were always better suited for space exploration than weapons (the same goes for the Atlas).
Storing cryogenic propellants for war use is a bear....
“If it isn’t a bad design, don’t replace it” - Russia’s Cosmonaut program
That's basically Russian design philosophy in a nutshell. Evolution more then revolution.
To be fair, when you rush to create something brand new just because, you get extremely reliable designs, like Space Shuttle Challenger and Columbia
Exactly and it's not over-engineered either compared to US designs. Soyuz has a remarkable reliability record because of it.
@@germanvahatov4314 Well Proton's aren't exactly the most reliable rocket either.
soviet engineers were trained to design machines and equipment to last almost forever with very little maintenance
daniel you need to do a series dedicated to real spacecraft this vid is brilliant!
Seconded
Third. Fantastic details!
Fourth
Or real designs that never flown, but could have been built, like the project Orion ships.
Absolutely!
There's something to admire about the Soviet designed spacecraft, it's a kind of paradoxical brutal elegance and complex simplicity that you don't see in American craft.
The Soviets tried to make every stage work the same way and developed mechanisms to allow that, while the Americans invented new devices when encountering new problems.
Hey, they may have been simplistic, but they WORKED. Only recently a Russian spacecraft suffered a catastrophic failure - but the pilots were returned unharmed to ground to tell about it another day. That's more than can be said about US craft in similar circumstances...
@@AttilaAsztalos Well, several russian spacecraft failed quite morbidly, it is just the USSR didn't like to say "We failed"
@@10gamer64 Not recently though. I won't deny their failures swiped under the rug, but eventually they arrived at a solution that worked, while others had just failed - repeatedly...
@@AttilaAsztalos Yes there was a 35 year gap between crewed soyuz accidents
@@10gamer64
When they look into the design of Shuttle to build their own shuttle, Soviet designers had to constantly ask "why? Why? Why?" Seeing how they completely redesigned the crew portion.
I think there was record of the engineers tell that Shuttles are death traps waiting to happen
Literally no one:
Soviet Union: “I’m going to the ONE place that hasn’t been corrupted by CAPITALISM!......SPACE!!!!”
hope we get a remaster soon!
(Starts jamming to Rubberband Man)
@@anwarshahaddat3412 more probable is that capitalism expands into space
For Motherland! For Putin! For the Reborn Union!
Alternate History Hub did a great video on that game.
Old Yuri was one brave dude. Full marks to him for being the first man to orbit the Earth.
that's some communist proletarian propaganda. Gagarin was just sitting and chilling. True heroes are engineers who worked without weekends even after government sent them for decade in gulag without any evidences of crimes.
@@ДенисФедоров-ь3у but did those engineers sit on top of that rocket, knowing there was a better-than good chance it could explode and kill them? Yuri did.
@@andrewreynolds9371 i think almost any of them would if they had chance to. Also there were hundreds of brave and healthy pilots who could easily replace Gagarin without any changes to the outcome. But replacement of even one engineer could have led to a disaster or delay that could have brought Alan Shepard on the place of Gagarin.
@@ДенисФедоров-ь3у except Sheppard flew a suborbital flight, where Gagarin did a full orbit. America wouldn't come even with the Russians until John Glenn strapped his butt atop that Atlas booster. Try to get your facts straight, you'll look a little less like an idiot.
@@andrewreynolds9371 hes just a child dosent even understand this has nothing to do with communism, and if he has any idea of the process of looking for cosmonauts and training them, just another child with god complex, but lets be honest tho if socialism didnt come to russia they would be 10 years behind and we wouldent even have gagarin flying at that point
In Civilization: Beyond Earth, the Slavic Federation leader General Vadim Kozlov is supposed to be based on Gagarin, with his focus on space exploration and launching satellites. In the backstory, his speech just before the launch ends with Gagarin’s immortal word
In 2005 the BBC made a 4 part documentary called Space Race. It focused mainly on the Russian side of it. It was a very well done and acted out series. I'd strongly recommend it to anyone interested.
Sounds good - do you know the title?
Another fun documentary to look for is "Tank on the Moon"about the lunakhod program.
@@MrChainsawAardvark It's called Space Race. Just look up BBC Space Race.
Yep I saw it. It makes me cry everytime I watch it again.
I'm Russian and that's so funny to hear russian words in the video. I must admit that pronunciation is quite understandable. Thanks for making the video!
I get the same feeling whenever an english speaker tries to spell german words.
This is one of the most beautifully written spacedock episodes yet, I actually teared up at the ending.
something about the words "the first time a human ventured beyond the confines of our own world", and rocket launches in general, makes me emotional every time. I still can't fully explain it but I'm glad it happens
Soyuz (rocket and spacecraft): The Toyota Corolla of space exploration, you can´t live without it
Hilux, corollas are crap.
Yuri Gagarin: "Let's go already! I've had to piss for the past two hours!"
He kinda did already. That's where the tradition of urinating on a wheel of the bus (that carries cosmonauts to the rocket) comes from
@@jur4x Lucky he didn't have to poop at that time. It would be a hard tradition to follow.
On Star Trek: Enterprise, when first going to warp, Archer said “Let’s go”. I’m choosing to believe it’s an homage to Gagarin
Its mind blowing how in just few years they managed to design such complex and reliable marvels of engineering with only pencils and sheets of paper.
Even today with modern computers and software its immensely difficult and time consuming.
I’ve always loved the design and aesthetic of Soviet spacecraft. Something about it just looks so sturdy and dependable. Great video! I hope to see more about historical spacecraft sometime!
Science fact! Always welcome! Thanks Spacedock!
A little late but at least you recognized Yuri's flight unlike NASA which instead just talked about the test flight of the space shuttle since they both happened on April 12th in different years. 😑
like in most usa documentaries they ignore the achivementes of other nations and maximice theirs
@@anuvisraa5786 Few years ago, some americans were actually saying that Gagarin's flight doesn't count since he landed separately from the capsule. And instead it should be Alan Shepard given the title. You know, the guy who went up and straight down, without making a full orbit.
@@jur4x That is the point the proper term is cosmonaut since only the apolo guys made the trip ton an astro (so they are astronauts) but americans use ther proper therm because they want to make a narrative
@@jur4xthe problem is that Soviets have lied that Gagarin landed with his capsule
Respect to all early space explorers. Those folks packed themselves up onto not so reliable ICBM platforms that were modified to carry a man rather than a weapon. Talk about bravery!
Seeing a real world human achievement on a sci-fi channel really warms my heart :)
Both this and the Apollo video are genuinely some of the most inspiring pieces of film I've ever seen. It almost makes you forget that we'll probably all die in 15 years without ever realizing these dreams.
Best explanation of the Vostok I've seen. Thank you, Daniel.
Thank you korolev. If not for you we would not have started our journey to the stars so soon
Sphere shape was also chosen due to having high volume/surface which reduced mass.
This is also reason why modern Soyuz capsules when having flat bottom for more stable reentry they are still very spherical, which makes visible difference between Russian/soviet capsules and US capsules (which are more like cones).
I have heard they had to load extra fuel to account for the unexpected weight of Gagarin's gigantic, steel plated balls.
5:17 Katyusha starts playing in the background. Of course something Russian/Soviet featuring rockets would involve Katyusha xD
Really would like to see a Battleship or Dreadnought of the Soujorn universe
When you make such a good Rocket that it's still used 30 years later.
30? Rather 50.
@@foximacentauri7891 The R7 & Atlas family & Delta. Still flying but soon Delta than Atlas will retire.
The R7 as a rocket family is nearly 70 years old and it's still going!
It's more because lack of money to make new one
@@ImieNazwiskoOK that is simply not true. The Russians built many rockets, but the Soyuz just kept being more efficient and more reliable than anything else. For twenty years, every American astronaut went to space in a Soyuz.
Love the real-world spacecraft breakdowns!
God, only 60 years? DAMN, time flies...
And look how far we've come already.
honestly suppressed the vostok 1 could even fly carrying that mans gigantic adamantium balls
Excellent video!
May we please have a video similar to this on the International Space Station?
The ISS is one engine away from being a spaceship. I find it hard to believe it exists sometimes,
@@jimmyryan5880 Not 100% certain of that given that the solar wings would vibrate and AWFUL lot if you applied thrust to the center of mass. They could even shear off from the stress of the vibration. Not only that, but to escape its' current orbit you would need to add about root(2)*Vorb. Given the mass of the ISS, you'd need (on the basis of a paper napkin calculation I did in a bar one night) about 25 fully fueled SpaceX Heavy cores in expendable mode. And then lots and lots of fuel to do any maneuvering. The structure has just THAT MUCH inertia to it. Plus, for any deep space mission the crew requirements for radiation shielding and collision hazard mitigation are huge given the signature of the station (it being far more area per interior unit volume because of heat sinks and solar panels). In short... while it COULD be repurposed for long-duration deep space missions, it is a very poor candidate compared to purpose designed space ships like the Lunar Gateway or the NASA Mars mission designs.
Yuri had the best smile. And it is so awesome that a rocket designed more than 60 years ago is still flying and still reliable as hell.
Ah, thank you for doing this! A disproportionate number of my short stories take place on a planet called "Gagarin," orbiting Tau Ceti. Science Fiction needs more grounding in real science, and I appreciate your work here.
AMEN! I lost it in the theater during ST: Into Darkness with the cold-fusion device that froze a volcano...
I love this content!!! Thank you so much. Also, I don't believe I have ever heard a better summary of USSR policy than "... A characteristic sense of pragmatism..."
Freaking awesome!!! Always was curious about the story behind the first man to make it to space. Didn't even know that to this day, the R7 design is still in use for the Soyuz rockets. Amazing!
You know, one detail I liked in Star Trek discovery was that star fleet had a ship named after Gagarin. It’s how I learned his name as it happens
If only Star Trek had a ship named Vladimir Komarov. His story has always saddened me.
@@Perkelenaattori I believed that he was also given the hero of the soviet union. I really liked his story
One of the few things redeemable about STD is that they had a ship named after the Buran. Also the show Stargate had a ship named after Korolev, although it was Russian and was destroyed in the same episode it was introduced.
It's mind-blowing (to me) and very saddening that they didn't teach you about the first human in space at your school. :(
@@Prizrak-hv6qk to be fair it’s not an anti Russian thing, they didn’t teach us about the Apollo landings either
American Astronaut:"That's ignition! I LOVE THIS PART!!!"
Russian Cosmonaut:"ME TOO!!"
Howard:"I have strongly mixed feelings!!!!"
Fantastic. Thanks for this one.
I'm glad a devoted sci-fi channel like this exists on TH-cam 😊
I fucking loved this. Your shows format mixed with real space flight is the perfect blend for this sort of science history presentation.
I love these real ship videos - they’re great, and have the same feel as your other videos, which highlights how immersive and real-feeling your other videos are! You guys rock. Keep up the awesomeness!
To quote a classic.
Further.
Always.
Поехали!
Fantastic video thanks Daniel and Gabriel for putting together such a gem!
Loved and appreciated this presentation, thank you!
This was a fantastic episode.
I'm digging the real world history sprinkled in with the awesome sci-fi content. Please bring more universes in like Battletech and other niche mythos.
I like how this comment implies that Battletech and reality are both niche mythos.
"In order to increase it's payload capacity, the Vostok - K was outfitted with 4 Nariman Dynamics 40 mm PDCs..."
Daniel, congratulations to you and the channel. Great video
Have you considered also making ship breakdown videos about historical spaceship concepts that were never realised? Sänger II, Venture Star, Project Daedalus, Kliper, …
Quite a bit of content there that fans of hard sci-fi are going to love. But they don't usually have significant dates whose anniversaries provide an occasion. So you'd have to schedule them like your usual videos.
Thank you
I was wondering about why this and why now. Good information. An anniversary well worth celebrating.
Fantastic video! I always love the ship breakdown videos and listening to real space vehicle breakdown video is always really cool.
I would love an eventual episode on starship, humanity's first interplanetary vessel
So fun thought but the game War Thunder published by Gaijin entertainment did a small event based on this an had a 1:1 scale model of the rocket takeoff ever so often on the 12th among other goodies for the 60th anniversary of the first man in space.
So that's kinda cool for this.
Fantastic episode
That was great. You should do a whole series of these.
This was awesome, I love seeing these real-world spacecraft get some love. By the by, would love to see you cover one of the Battletech Warships such as the Dart-class Light Cruiser or the McKenna-class Battleship.
Happy Birthiversary, Cosmonaut.
Fantastic video. Entertaining but more importantly informative.
With April 12 also being the 40th anniversary of the first Space Shuttle launch, can you do a video on it as well? I have many fond memories of that program.
Great job, interesting vid. It's nice to see a stand alone video about the Vostok 1. Usually Gagarin and the USSR's space flight achievement is used as a footnote in a story about the Moon landing. I'd like to see more about this.
More please! These real life ships are killer
Thankyou.
I'm surprised that there have never been a spaceship named after Vostok in any sci fi
Same, or at least a spacecraft named East (That is what Восток means in russian)
Fun fact, Yuri Gagarin's first flight to space happen on the same day of the first Space Shuttle launch.
The same day of the year, but decades earlier.
I think you put them in the wrong order
@@nottoday3817 nope they put it in right order
@@mariasirona1622 No. Space Shuttle flew after Gagarin, so the first flight of the Space Shuttle happened on the same day as Yuri Gagarins flight
Same *date*. Americans born before 1993 often got fed propaganda as kids that suggested the USA was first to accomplish pretty much everything and the schools made Gagarin out to be a footnote, so the distinction is important here. There are some people who might see this video and be disillusioned about something they believed for 30 years.
6:12 😂
USSR govt: We won't support development of human spaceflight.
Korolev: Sure, but I need fully pressurized 2.3m in diameter capsule for my "reconnaissance satellite" 😏
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Gagarin: Poyehali!!!
When you look at how many members of Russia’s space program, in all of its iterations across the decades, were thrown in gulags - some of whom did noteworthy work from inside a cell - you develop a new respect for the resilience and diligence of the people involved.
I would love it if you guys would start a series on real spacecraft that were planned, but never built.
Loved the first volume. Cannot wait for the second
Nice to see the Soviet space program get some love. And can you do the adamant frigate or arachne cruiser from battlestar galactica deadlock please?
Thanks for the video, congrats!!!
To anyone who wondered why the Russian Daedalus-class ship is named Korolev
Love it! If you haven’t already done so, would love to see an episode on the Ravens Claw or Moldy Crow (HWK) from Jedi Knight
I love those real life Spacedock videos. Great job!
Большое Спасибо! Слава Гагарину! Слава Королёву! Слава Советскому Союзу!
Daniel, this was awesome; you should totally repeat this with other real-world spacecraft 😎😎😎
From sci-fi ships that are able to travel to hyperspace, warp drives... super cool antimatter-powered interstellar spacecraft...
To an intercontinental ballistic missile that carries a guy called the "commander" in it
Bloody amazing vid for this history making event
Not sure how much info is out right now, but a video on Pathfinder from the show For All Man Kind would be cool
I would love to see one special about our first crewed spaceship capable of interplanetary travel... someday...
great stuff. nice to see something on Soviet soace programme. I have watched so many documentaries on Mercury Gemini and Apollo. Soviet documentaries are sadly lacking
Anyone else see the Saiyan Drop Ship in the pod Yuri was in? The one based on orbital reconnaissance satellite?
Loved the video. Also, great choice of music!
Amazing!! Keep doing videos about real spaceships too!
damn bro Yuri and that man he shook hands with must be good friends 😳
Gagarin was the backup pilot for Soyuz 1 and knew about the design problems. He showed up on launch day to try to take the place of his friend Vladimir Komarov, since he knew that the Soviet leaders would rather scrub the flight than risk his life. Unfortunately, Komarov didn’t want to risk his friend’s life despite knowing the mission was doomed and chose to fly. The main parachute failed to deploy and the backup got tangled, so he slammed to the ground at 40 m/s.
There’s an apocryphal story about his final transmission involving curses directed towards engineers and leadership as well as a conversation with his wife, but most historians dispute that it happened
The show For All Mankind is set in an alternate timeline in which Sergei korolev lives at and the Space Race continued into the 1980s. By 1983, the Americans and Soviets have cool new spacecraft that should be covered like the Sea Dragon rocket, the Buran shuttle and the NERVA equipped Pathfinder shuttle.
Just a completely normal kiss between two professional men in 1961 Soviet Russia.
It's a communist thing that the party promoted. It's supposed to show "brotherly love between the socialists of the world" or something like that.
Hey Daniel, you should do a segment on the Pathfinder shuttle platform from 'For All Mankind'.