I see no God up here

Recreation of the first spaceflight




Watch the full-length HD version HERE.

Like a magnet...

I have always been confounded and fascinated by space and space exploration. As a child I would sit on my cool doona cover and read through old musty-smelling second-hard books on space flight and the cosmos, entering a world so amazing and spectacular. I know scores of kids dreamed of being an astronaut, but I liked to think I was different from them. I wanted to be strapped into that hard seat, feel the cords and cables and fabric wrapping my body as a complex life-supporting space suit, see the sparkle of oceans through a riveted port-hole, float around in that small capsule soaring through that magnificent vacuum, and come back to earth having experienced something so unfathomably sublime. It's true, space is fucking awesome.

Reach for the stars...

Юрий Алексеевич Гагарин (Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin) made the first manned journey into outer space on this day 50 years ago. It still astounds and inspires me.