The first Soviet cosmonauts (1963-1969)

Color newsreel.

Yuri Gagarin in Japan, rides in an open car, the Japanese greet him.

Captions "Seventeen space dawns."

Baikonur.

Mission Control Center.

Gherman Titov in a spacesuit.

Titov landed by parachute, takes off his gloves.

Titov before the cheering crowd.

Riverbank, Gagarin and Titov go on green glade.

Mission Control Center.

Valentina Tereshkova in the suit, looks in the mirror on the sleeve.

Tereshkova and Valery Bykovsky suits.

Muscovites welcome posters Tereshkova.

Tereshkova sitting on the grass, talking with friends.

The first of May.

Muscovites with posters, flags, flowers.

Tereshkova waving Muscovites Mausoleum.

Brezhnev gives Tereshkova, a Hero of the Soviet Union.

Tereshkova at the controls of the aircraft.

Baikonur.

Mission Control Center.

Cosmonauts Pavel Belyaev and Alexei Leonov on board the "Voskhod-2".

Move in spacesuits, ready to fly.

Alexei Leonov exits gateway ship into space.

MCC experts watching the flight.

Yuri Gagarin in touch with the astronauts.

Taiga, experts meet landed astronauts.

Detachment skiing.

Muscovites waving flags.

Astronauts go on the red carpet.

Spacecraft "Soyuz".

SP Photo Queen.

January 16, 1969. The world's first docking of spacecraft "Soyuz-4" and "Soyuz-5".

Cosmonauts Vladimir Shatalov, Boris Volynov, Alexey Eliseev, Eugene Khrunov

at Baikonur on board ships in weightlessness.

The first docking of spacecraft.

The first dressing cosmonauts.

The first transfer of cosmonauts from ship to ship.

Astronauts aboard the hug.