CUCUMBER IN COTTON-WOOL?—This picture was released in Moscow by Tass, the official Soviet news agency, on April 15, 1961, and was believed to be the first ever released showing the launching of a Russian rocket. It is the history-making vehicle which boosted Major Yuri Gagarin, the world’s first spaceman, into orbit three days earlier. The picture was so heavily retouched that,, even the shape of the rocket is in doubt, and nothing of the launching equipment is visible to indicate the size of the rocket.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30879, 12 October 1965, Page 12
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85CUCUMBER IN COTTON-WOOL?—This picture was released in Moscow by Tass, the official Soviet news agency, on April 15, 1961, and was believed to be the first ever released showing the launching of a Russian rocket. It is the history-making vehicle which boosted Major Yuri Gagarin, the world’s first spaceman, into orbit three days earlier. The picture was so heavily retouched that,, even the shape of the rocket is in doubt, and nothing of the launching equipment is visible to indicate the size of the rocket. Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30879, 12 October 1965, Page 12
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