I became infected with a new disease, a disease the medicine has not yet found a name for—the irresistible urge to reach outer space. It was a vague, not fully recognized feeling, but it remained with me, bothered me and gave me no rest.
— Yuri Gagarin Modern

First man in space

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From his biography 'Road to the Stars'

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1962

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Philosophical

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