Los cohetes

50 years after Yuri Gagarin's flight

Antennas

Baykonour

Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin wearing the SK-1 Sokol spacesuit Entry hantch blown off when ejection seat is fired

Ejection Seat blasts cosmonaut out of capsule before landing

Hatches for access to instrumentation and recovery parachutes

Instrument Module jettisoned before atmospheric entry

Instruments indicate cabin pressure, temperature, orbital position above Earth

NEPSZABADSÁG ASTOVINT NEPAGADILA Megkezdődött az ember brutazásának korszaka

Original report of our newspaper „Népszabadság 13th April, 1961

Portholes (3 total)

Soviet R-7 Semyorka carrier rocket

Spherical Descent Capsule covered with heat shield material

Spherical tanks hold oxygen and nitrogen for life support and propulsion

TDU-1 retro engine

TV camera

Vostok-1