Follow Yuri Gagarin on the first human space flight

Video included on this article.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/apr/12/yuri-gagarin-first-human-space

Unbelievable that it's been 50 friggin' years! Yeesh. It was two years before I was born!

And it was 7 years after I was born... it's just un-freaking-real how much history I have seen unfold and I'm only 56 (for a few more months anyway). It boggles the mind that there are people still alive who remember horse and buggy transportation and no indoor plumbing or electricity. The human race has advanced technologically so unbelievably fast in the last 100 years that it just blows the mind! The word "computer" didn't even exist in the popular lexicon when I was a young adult. And now I don't know how I'd exist without one.

I can remember the flap that Sputnik created when the Soviets launched it. It was a huge deal.

Wow. Can you believe how much the world has changed in the last 100 years?

Mindblowing.

I'll bet that the world has changed more between 1911 and 2011 than it did in the 200 years before that.

Yes, always an impressive video.