Portrait of the first human to journey into outer space, Yuri GagarinVostok 1, 12 April 1961Vintage gelatin silver press print on fibre-based paper, 23 x 18 cm (9 x 7 in), with cropping marks, Novosti Press Agency stamps and a caption on the versoProvenance: from Tim Furniss collectionFootnotes:Becae no one could be sure how Gagarin would respond to weightlessness, Vostok 1 was programmed to operate automatically (...) Only in an emergency would Gagarin himself be allowed to take control - and then only after he had punched a three digit code-number into a special locking device on the instrument panel. at 7:50 a.m. Moscow Time, Gagarin felt the rockete to life and surge upwards, and said over the radio, 'Payekhali!' - 'Let's Go!' (...) For the next 108 minutes Gagarin made history. (Chaikin, Space, )