I watched that First Orbit documentary last night and sadly 5/10 still feels pretty generous. The first few minutes are the most interesting with archive footage of the launch. The rest is slow scrolling satellite images and poor quality views from the iss (bad reflections, dirty lenses, degraded ccds full with dead pixels from cosmic radiation) recreating the path of the first orbit. That goes on for 90 minutes with some actual footage now and then that is so badly degraded you can hardly make out anything at all.
The only redeeming factor is the original radio transmissions, although they don't say much interesting stuff. Are you OK, I'm OK continuing the mission, I can see the earth through the vzor, I'm doing OK, feeling great, and so on. I fast forwarded through most of it, felt like watching paint dry.
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