Days That Shook the World
Season 2, Episode 6: Reach For The Stars: Trials of Galileo / Yuri Gagarin's Flight
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12 April 1633 and 12 April 1961. Two days on which science challenged the conventional view of our place in the universe: April 12, 1633 when Galileo stands trial for heresy for claiming the sun and not the Earth is the centre of the known universe, and exactly 328 years to the day later (1961) when Soviet cosmonaut Major Yuri Gagarin steps from the Earth into space.
All Episodes - Season 2
Episode 1
Disaster in the Sky: The Hindenburg / Challenger Disaster
Episode 2
The Christmas Truce
Episode 3
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Episode 4
Grand Heist: The Theft of the Crown Jewels / The Great Train Robbery
Episode 5
Conspiracy to Kill: The Real Day of the Jackal / Wolf's Lair
Episode 6
Reach For The Stars: Trials of Galileo / Yuri Gagarin's Flight
Episode 7
Dinosaurs & Duplicity: Discovery of the First Dinosaur/Piltdown Man
Episode 8
Terrorism: Assassination of Abraham Lincoln/Oklahoma City Bombing
Episode 9
Cold War Spies: Gary Powers/Rudolf Abel
Episode 10
Affairs of the Crown: The Execution of Anne Boleyn/The Abdication of Edward VIII