Our Yuri Gagarin Bunchbrary
Today marks 50 years since Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person to venture into outer space. Amazing. You might even say it calls for a celebration. World Space Party, anyone? So while your Yuri’s Night space party might include some rocket crafts, space songs and astronaut food, you might want to wind down with one or more of these astronomical films.
1. The Rocketeer (1991)
This 1930s period piece doesn’t have space travel per say, but it does have a young (& handsome, obviously) pilot who stumbles upon a secret prototype jetpack that allows him to become a spacey-looking superhero who fights Nazis. And though the movie was made well after Gagarin’s fatal test flight, he must have read comic books with Rocketeer-esque plots back in his pre-cosmonaut days.
2. Muppets from Space (1999)
