Camera: Sony a230 + Tamron 17-50/2.8 Soft: Apple Motion 4 Fireworks lit up the sky in Moscow on Tuesday night (april 12) as Russia celebrated the 50th anniversary of the first ever space flight. Russia has marked 50 years since Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space, the greatest victory of Soviet science which expanded human horizons and still remembered by Russians as their finest hour.