April 14th 1961 Yuri Gagaring became the first human in space, when he orbited- and returned to Earth in just 108 minuttes. To celebrate this 50 year annivesary of manned spaceflight, ESA and the crew of the ISS has made a HD film on what he saw.

April 12th 1961 – Yuri Gagarin is about to see what no other person has seen in the history of humanity – the Earth from space. In the next 108 minutes he saw more than most people do in a lifetime.  In a unique collaboration with the European Space Agency, and the Expedition 26/27 crew of the International Space Station, we have created a new film of what Gagarin first witnessed 50 years ago.

By matching the orbital path of the Space Station, as closely as possible, to that of Gagarin's Vostok 1 spaceship and filming the same vistas of the Earth through the new giant cupola window, astronaut Paolo Nespoli, and documentary film maker Christopher Riley, have captured a new digital high definition view of the Earth below, half a century after Gagarin first witnessed it.

Source: firstorbit