Yuri Gagarin — "I hope that my flight will help people to understand that we are all on one plan…"

"The feeling of weightlessness was somewhat unfamiliar compared with Earth conditions. Here, you feel as if you were hanging in a horizontal position in straps. You feel as if you are suspended."

"The Earth is very beautiful. I could see the continents clearly, the rivers, the clouds, the snow-capped mountains."

"I still can't believe it. I want to fly again. I want to fly to the Moon, to Mars, to Venus..."

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

"To be the first to enter the cosmos, to engage, single-handed, in an unprecedented duel with nature-could one dream of anything more?"