"flight" newsreels and historical clips

... are controlled automatically.

Before the start, the flight is rehearsed many times.

The ship is approaching the equator, the first rocket launch point.

Information about the launch of rockets and their landing is transmitted on the air.

Pre-flight assembly of the rocket.

Setting the rocket to launch ...

Radio signals from the rocket are received by telemetry stations.

Some parameters coming from the rocket are reproduced on paper.

During the entire flight, the Meteorite radar station accompanies the rocket.

The rocket launch was taken from another vessel located next to the ship.

After 6 hours, new launches ...

Photos of the Soviet manned space station "Mir".

The Mir station is in flight.

View of the hall of the Mission Control Center (MCC).

Docking of the Progress cargo ship with the Mir station.

Cosmonaut Leonid Kizim checks the communication headset.

Cosmonaut Vladimir Solovyov gets up from his chair.

Launch ...

... Launch of the spacecraft.

Kizim and Solovyov enter the station through the hatch.

Checking the operation of the control panel.

Flight from Mir station to Salyut-7 station.

The crew while working at the Salyut-7 station.

Cosmonaut's spacewalk, shooting in space.

Return of the cosmonauts to the Mir station ...

... weightlessness on the human body in a long flight with sports loads.

MCC employees and scientists analyze the data obtained from the Mir station.

View of the Earth from space.

Photo of Laveikin and Romanenko inside the spaceship.

Photos of Soviet cosmonauts during long flights in the period 1969-1984.

Photo of ...

... of a part of the earth's surface.

Docking of the Mir station with new research modules (animation).

Launch of the spacecraft.

The Mir station is in flight.

... Closeups those boys and girls.

Students look to the instrument.

On the airfield a passing car with fuel.

Students on the tarmac waiting for a training flight.

A group of students with parachutes in the plane.

Guys wearing headsets.

The teacher instructs students (synchronously).

Students with parachutes ...

... out IL-76.

IL-76 in the air.

Flight.

Fire truck, ambulance at the airport.

G.E Lozino - Lozinski talks with pilots.

The people at the airport.

Test pilots pass through the landfill into the cockpit of "Buran" flight suits and dress hats.

Preparing the vessel for a test flight.

Passing fire trucks

Buran ...

Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin talks about his flight into space (synchronously) on the screen - face Gagarin.

Sunrise over the steppe.

Engineers and technicians complete the preparation of the spacecraft "Vostok" for the flight (behind the scenes story sounds YA Gagarin's first flight into space).

Gagarin wears overalls.

Gagarin takes a license, disclose it, hides in his pocket jumpsuit.

Gagarin in a space suit ...

Gagarin's face on the screen.

Animation showing the craft into orbit.

Center staff conducted telemetry.

Staff at the Mission Control Center to control the flight of Gagarin.

Gagarin's face on the screen.

Animation showing the output of the spacecraft into orbit.

Gagarin's face on the screen.

Gagarin takes food ...

... Gromov - MS.

Gromov eve of his 85th birthday, says (synchronously) - CU., MS.

PNRM. at Star of the Hero - CU.

Newsreel of the 30's:

People watch the flight - MS., CU.

Aircraft in the air - MS.

Landscape - MS. (The plane).

Gromov in the cockpit - CU.

Earth - MS. (The plane).

Land with running aircraft ...

... Departure.

Books on the shelves - CU.

Says R. Osborne (synchronous) - CU.

The girl's face - CU.

Airplane in the sky - LS.

Monument dedicated to the flight of Chkalov, Vancouver - MS.

Says the former director of the airport in Vancouver, Ken Putkammer (synchronous) - CU.

Portland - MS., PNRM.

Bridge ...