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

- Yuri Gagarin

Looking at the earth from afar you realize it is too small for conflict and just big enough for co-operation.

- Yuri Gagarin

When they saw me in my space suit and the parachute dragging alongside as I walked, they started to back away in fear. I told them, don’t be afraid, …

- Yuri Gagarin

I am watching the Earth. The visibility is good. I feel well and cheerful. The machine is functioning normally.

- Yuri Gagarin

Rays were blazing through the atmosphere of the earth, the horizon became bright orange, gradually passing into all the colors of the rainbow: from l…

- Yuri Gagarin

I see Earth! It is so beautiful.

- Yuri Gagarin

The Earth is blue... how wonderful. It is amazing

- Yuri Gagarin

Circling the earth in the orbital spaceship I marvelled at the beauty of our planet. People of the world!! Let us safeguard and enhance this beauty-n…

- Yuri Gagarin

If all those people are getting wet to welcome me, surely the least I can do is get wet too!

- Yuri Gagarin