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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 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 GAGARIN

Cosmos Dreams Engagement Nature Oneself
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 GAGARIN

Destroy Earth Kind Man Nature Preserve Space
I could have gone on flying through space forever.
YURI GAGARIN

Forever Myself Space
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 GAGARIN

Funny Myself Space Start Walk
I am watching the Earth. The visibility is good. I feel well and cheerful. The machine is functioning normally.
YURI GAGARIN

Cheerful Earth Function Goodness Machine Myself Normal Visible
The Earth is blue, how wonderful. It is amazing.
YURI GAGARIN

Amazing Earth Wonderful
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 GAGARIN

Beautiful Destroy Earth People Space World
I see Earth! It is so beautiful.
YURI GAGARIN

Beautiful Earth Myself See
If all those people are getting wet to welcome me, surely the least I can do is get wet too!
YURI GAGARIN

Myself People Water Welcome
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 GAGARIN

Black Earth Easy Expression Feeling Greatness Joy Myself See Time Word
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 GAGARIN

Easy Glory Meaning Path Space Yourself
Looking at the earth from afar you realize it is too small for conflict and just big enough for co-operation.
YURI GAGARIN

Earth Enough Far Small Togetherness

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!

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