Yuri Gagarin — "I feel wonderful. I see clouds and the horizon, and the forests and cities."

"I don't see any God up here."

"My handwriting did not change, though the hand was weightless. But it was necessary to hold the writing-block as otherwise it would float away from the hands…"

"I was told to prepare for the flight one way, but then the schedule was changed, and I had to prepare for it another way."

"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…"

"The main thing is to be in space. If only I could be in space for a week, or a month, or a year!"