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Sausages in Space? Secrets of Yuri Gagarin's Historic Spaceflight Revealed

Monday, April 11, 2011 - 16:30 in Astronomy & Space

Minutes before his launch 50 years ago, Yuri Gagarin was joking about having enough sausages and moonshine to make the trip home to Moscow.

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