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When they saw me in my space suit and the parachute dragging alongside as I walked, they started to back away in fear. I told them, don’t be afraid, I am a Soviet like you, who has descended from space and I must find a telephone to call Moscow!
Yuri GagarinYuri Gagarin Looking at the earth from afar you realize it is too small for conflict and just big enough for co-operation.
Yuri GagarinYuri Gagarin The Earth is blue, how wonderful. It is amazing.
Yuri GagarinYuri Gagarin The path of a cosmonaut is not an easy, triumphant march to glory. You have to get to know the meaning not just of joy but also of grief, before being allowed in the spacecraft cabin.
Yuri GagarinYuri Gagarin Circling the earth in the orbital spaceship I marvelled at the beauty of our planet. People of the world!! Let us safeguard and enhance this beauty-not destroy it
Yuri GagarinYuri Gagarin When I orbited the Earth in a spaceship, I saw for the first time how beautiful our planet is. Mankind, let us preserve and increase this beauty, and not destroy it!
Yuri GagarinYuri Gagarin To be the first to enter the cosmos, to engage, single-handed, in an unprecedented duel with nature-could one dream of anything more?
Yuri GagarinYuri Gagarin I am watching the Earth. The visibility is good. I feel well and cheerful. The machine is functioning normally.
Yuri GagarinYuri Gagarin I saw for the first time the earth’s shape. I could easily see the shores of continents, islands, great rivers, folds of the terrain, large bodies of water. The horizon is dark blue, smoothly turning to black. The feelings which filled me I can express with one word-joy.
Yuri GagarinYuri Gagarin If all those people are getting wet to welcome me, surely the least I can do is get wet too!
Yuri GagarinYuri Gagarin I could have gone on flying through space forever.
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