Above is a “real time recreation of Yuri Gagarin’s pioneering first orbit, shot entirely in space from on board the International Space Station. The film combines this new footage with Gagarin’s original mission audio and a new musical score by composer Philip Sheppard.”

Fifty years ago today,  Yuri Gagarin was orbiting the motherfucking Earth. Fifty years ago today we said fuck you to gravity, plausibility, and rocketed off this fucking Earth. We, as in humanity, not some retarded provincial ideas constructed with illusory borders and ideologies.

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