“I see Earth. It’s so beautiful!”
These were the first words spoken by a man in space.
Yuri Gagarin, the first Kosmonaut, made this statement for the press and radio: "Dear friends, compatriots, and people of all countries and continents! In a few minutes a mighty ship will carry me aloft to distant space. What can I say to you in these last moments before the launch? At this instant the whole of my life seems to be condensed into one wonderful moment... To be the first to enter the cosmos, to engage, single-handed, in an unprecedented duel with nature-could one dream of anything more?”
“The journalists who knew him said that if he had not become a cosmonaut Yuri would have been a writer. When asked where his talent came from, he smiled: it was from his mother. There was no end to the songs she knew, the folk tales and the sayings of the people. The words in these songs and stories were like jewels you could string together as if on a thread, to make a beautiful necklace... Several days before the tragic accident in which he lost his life Yuri Gagarin had sent to the publisher a book entitled "Psychology and the Cosmos.”
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These were the first words spoken by a man in space.
Yuri Gagarin, the first Kosmonaut, made this statement for the press and radio: "Dear friends, compatriots, and people of all countries and continents! In a few minutes a mighty ship will carry me aloft to distant space. What can I say to you in these last moments before the launch? At this instant the whole of my life seems to be condensed into one wonderful moment... To be the first to enter the cosmos, to engage, single-handed, in an unprecedented duel with nature-could one dream of anything more?”
“The journalists who knew him said that if he had not become a cosmonaut Yuri would have been a writer. When asked where his talent came from, he smiled: it was from his mother. There was no end to the songs she knew, the folk tales and the sayings of the people. The words in these songs and stories were like jewels you could string together as if on a thread, to make a beautiful necklace... Several days before the tragic accident in which he lost his life Yuri Gagarin had sent to the publisher a book entitled "Psychology and the Cosmos.”
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Credits: Collage by Jay Larsen
Propaganda from: http://www.kosmonaut.se/gagarin/index.html
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