”Man in Space.” A rocket launches. Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin greets a crowd of people. Russians celebrate in the streets. Russian cosmonaut Gherman Titov greets a crowd as the narrator says that he circled the earth seven times. The cosmonauts wave to the crowd. US Astronaut Alan Shepard boards a spacecraft for a sub-orbital flight. Spectators cheer on the rocket launch. Shepard lands and gets off the capsule.