Transcription: Major Gagarin said that the flight was going on successfully, normal, visibility was good and that he himself was feeling good as well. Major Gagarin was sent up in his foreigner half-ton spaceship from somewhere in the Soviet Union, soon after seven o'clock this morning our time. And about 148 minutes later he was brought down again after his 25,000 mile an hour flight around the Earth at heights ranging between 105 and 181 miles. As he looked down on the Earth from the loneliness of space he streaked across Asia, Africa and South America constantly checking his instruments and controlling th ...
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