Follow Yuri Gagarin on the first human space flight

From 7.07am BST on Tuesday, the film First Orbit will track Yuri Gagarin's space flight as it happened 50 years ago. This page will display communications between Gagarin and ground control as the mission unfolds

First Orbit, a film by Christopher Riley, marks the 50th anniversary of the first manned space flight by the Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. It uses footage of the Earth shot from the International Space Station to match Gagarin's flight path, and original mission audio.

Read film maker Chris Riley's introduction to the film, which was shot from the International Space Station. The British Council helped to fund First Orbit, and they are tweeting the flight live as it happened, starting from 3.30am on Tuesday morning.