Press Headline of Yuri Gagarin’s Spaceflight

Description

Press headline of Yuri Gagarin’s spaceflight, photo; Licensed article; Original: 5740×4315; Photographer: Unknown; subject to license; Rights: a9 Bleek/zb Media. The photo shows people in front of a showcase of the newspaper 1cFrance-Soir1d in Paris in April 1961, eagerly reading the headline about Yuri Gagarin’s historic spaceflight.
Scene: Two men stand with their backs to the camera, engrossed in the large headline announcing the first manned spaceflight. Other passersby might gather around the showcase.
Newspaper headline: Likely in large letters a sensational message like 1cIl revient du ciel1d (He is back from the sky).
Significance: The first human spaceflight was a worldwide sensation that sparked great interest in Western Europe, despite the Cold War.
The photo symbolizes the international attention to Gagarin’s spaceflight and shows how the beginning of the space age fascinated people worldwide.