What is it like for a man in a legends suit?
Four cosmic fragments from a personal diary. Fragment one: how we met Gagarin At the planetarium, Muscovites rejoice, celebrating the news of Yuri Gagarin's successful flight, 1961. Archive photo April 11, 1996 Thursday. On June 14, 1954, a draft of a script about a human flight into space appeared in the diary of Alexander Dovzhenko. He considered it necessary to use in the film the earthly chronicle of the Patriotic War, battles, construction projects, river floods, and atomic explosions.