Yuri Gagarin Quotes
1934–1968 Russia
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968) was a Soviet cosmonaut and the first human in space (12 April 1961).
Also known as: Gagarin, Yuri
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Orbiting Earth in the spaceship, I saw how beautiful our planet is. People, let us preserve and increase this beauty, not destroy it!
The main force in man — is the power of the spirit.
Essays on Marxist-Leninist Ethics [марксистско-ленинской этике (1962)
Let's go! (Russian: Поéхали, Poyekhali!)
If all those people are getting wet to welcome me, surely the least I can do is get wet too!
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.
Earth's Aura (1977)
I am a friend, comrades, a friend!
I would like to dedicate this first space flight to the people of communism, a society which our Soviet people are already entering, and which, I am confident, all men on earth will enter.
I have to disillusion them. I am a simple Soviet man.
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!
I looked and looked but I didn't see God.
Disputed To Rise from Earth (1996)