Yuri Gagarin
First human to journey into outer space
"I see Earth! It is so beautiful."
This is not my personal glory. Could I have gone into space as a loner? This is the glory of our nation.
In all times and eras, it has been the supreme happiness for people to participate in new discoveries.
You work well when you love your profession and are passionate about it.
To be the first in space, to enter one-on-one in an unprecedented duel with nature – is it possible to dream of more?
When I was a child, I read Chkalov’s words: “If you have to be, you have to be first. So I try to be and will be until the end.
Life shows that space will be explored not by some supermen, but by the simplest people.
The main power in man is the power of the spirit.
My whole life seems to me now as one beautiful moment. Everything that has been lived, everything that has been done before, has been lived and done for this moment.
To become winged, you need the urge to fly.
When I flew around the Earth in a satellite ship, I saw how beautiful our planet is. People, let us preserve and increase this beauty, not destroy it.