April 12 marked 50 years since Russian air force pilot Yuri Gagarin became the first human being to enter space, a giant leap forward for the Soviet Union that drove America's race to the moon.
To commemorate this event, a film was produced in collaboration with the European Space Agency and the astronauts on board the International Space Station. It captures the magnificence of Gagarin’s original orbit with breath-taking high-definition views of the Earth from above. It matches the orbital path of the International Space Station as closely as possible to that of Gagarin's original route, allowing viewers to see incredible vistas of the Earth through the Space Station’s new giant cupola window.
However, as the film was being edited, the director Chris Riley observed that Gagarin's short bursts of communication from the cockpit were very much similar to modern Twitter chatter. In addition to being the first man in space, Riley called him the first man on Twitter.
According to him, “It’s clear Yuri spoke in 'tweets’ -- as communications to the mission controllers were always brief and to the point," he said. " Today a text-based tweet is composed of up to no more than 140 characters, so in essence Yuri was the first perfect twitter".
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