Editing Vostok 1 (section)

===Legacy===
[[File:Gagarin field.jpg|right|thumb|Commemorative monument, Vostok-1 landing site near [[Engels, Saratov Oblast|Engels]], Russia]]
Four decades after the flight, historian Asif S. Siddiqi wrote that Vostok 1

{{blockquote|will undoubtedly remain one of the major milestones in not only the history of space exploration, but also the history of the human race itself. The fact that this accomplishment was successfully carried out by the Soviet Union, a country completely devastated by war just sixteen years prior, makes the achievement even more impressive. Unlike the United States, the USSR had to begin from a position of tremendous disadvantage. Its industrial infrastructure had been ruined, and its technological capabilities were outdated at best. A good portion of its land had been devastated by war, and it had lost about 25 million citizens ... but it was the totalitarian state that overwhelmingly took the lead [in the space race].{{r|siddiqi2000}}{{Reference page|page=282}}|author=Asif S. Siddiqi}}

The landing site is now a monument park. The central feature in the park is a {{convert|25|m|ft|abbr=on}} tall monument that consists of a silver metallic rocketship rising on a curved metallic column of flame, from a wedge shaped, white stone base. In front of this is a 3-meter (9 foot) tall white stone statue of Yuri Gagarin, wearing a spacesuit, with one arm raised in greeting and the other holding a space helmet.<ref>{{cite web |title=Vostok 1 Landing Site – Monument Park Location – Satellite photo |url=https://maps.google.com/maps?t=h&lci=org.wikipedia.en&q=51.270682,45.99727(Vostok+1)&ie=UTF8&ll=51.2709,45.997245&spn=0.000824,0.002594&z=19 |access-date=December 26, 2010 |website=Google Maps}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Vostok 1 Landing Site – Rocket Monument photo |url=https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=51.270508,45.997181&spn=0,0.005187&t=h&z=18&lci=com.panoramio.all&layer=c&cbll=51.270508,45.997181&cbp=12,0,,0,5&photoid=po-43813644 |access-date=December 26, 2010 |website=Google Maps}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Vostok 1 Landing Site – Yuri Gagarin Statue photo |url=https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=51.278777,45.978298&spn=0,0.005187&z=18&lci=com.panoramio.all&layer=c&cbll=51.278777,45.978298&cbp=12,0,,0,5&photoid=po-17440456 |access-date=December 26, 2010 |website=Google Maps}}</ref>

The ''Vostok 1'' re-entry capsule belongs to the [[RKK Energiya museum|S. P. Korolev RSC Energia Museum]] in [[Korolev City]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Corporation Museum |url=https://www.energia.ru/en/corporation/museum.html |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20211125145422/https://www.energia.ru/en/corporation/museum.html |archive-date=2021-11-25 |access-date= |website=www.energia.ru}}</ref> In 2018 it was temporarily loaned to the Space Pavilion at the [[VDNKh (Russia)|VDNKh]] in Moscow.

In 2011, documentary film maker [[Christopher Riley]] partnered with [[European Space Agency]] astronaut [[Paolo Nespoli]] to record a new film of what Gagarin would have seen of the Earth from his spaceship, by matching historical audio recordings to video from the [[International Space Station]] following the [[ground path]] taken by ''Vostok 1''. The resulting film, ''[[First Orbit]]'', was released online to celebrate the 50th anniversary of human spaceflight.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12808771 |title=Movie recreates Gagarin's spaceflight |work=BBC News |first=Jonathan |last=Amos |date=March 23, 2011 |access-date=March 27, 2011}}</ref>