Yuri Gagarin
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Юрий Алексеевич Гагарин; Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968) Soviet cosmonaut; first human in space (12 April 1961)
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- Облетев Землю в корабле-спутнике, я увидел, как прекрасна наша планета. Люди, будем хранить и приумножать эту красоту, а не разрушать её!
- Translation: "Orbiting Earth in the spaceship, I saw how beautiful our planet is. People, let us preserve and increase this beauty, not destroy it!"
- Russian phrase, handwritten and signed after his historic spaceflight.
- Quoted in (photo of facsimile): Lebedev L., Romanov A., Luk'ianov B. Syny goluboi planety, 3rd.ed., Moscow,1981 (in Russian) (1st ed. was translated into English: Lebedev, L.A. Sons of the Blue Planet. New Delhi, India: Amerind Pub Co, 1973.)
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- I am a friend, comrades, a friend!
- First words upon returning to earth, to a woman and a girl near where his capsule landed. (12 April 1961) The woman asked: "Can it be that you have come from outer space?" to which Gagarin replied: "As a matter of fact, I have!"
- What beauty. I saw clouds and their light shadows on the distant dear earth.... The water looked like darkish, slightly gleaming spots.... When I watched the horizon, I saw the abrupt, contrasting transition from the earth's light-colored surface to the absolutely black sky. I enjoyed the rich color spectrum of the earth. It is surrounded by a light blue aureole that gradually darkens, becoming turquiose, dark blue, violet, and finally coal black.
- 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! [1]
- Later recalled by Gagarin about the landing
[edit] External links
- Gagarin - detailed biography at Encyclopedia Astronautica
- Photo, Audio and Video with Yuri Gagarin (in Russian), online version of CD created to his 70th anniv. on the homepage of Russian state archive for scientific-technical documentation (RGANTD).
- Transcripts of Gagarin's conversations from space (MS Word document, in Russian)
- Article in online Encyclopedia of cosmonautics A lot of information about the first human's flight to space (in Russian).
- Various information about Yuri Gagarin (in Russian)
- More Yuri Gagarin Quotes
