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colchrishadfield:The first human to leave Earth, Yuri Gagarin,...
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colchrishadfield:
The first human to leave Earth, Yuri Gagarin, flew this plane. In 1968 he died in one just like it, a loss for us all. (at Star City, Russia)
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bxf7LrOna_Y/?igshid=8qy5iomvjbuc
I always liked his words upon take off ‘I will see you again, dear friends!’
Also on landing and terrifying a pair of Russian peasants. ‘Don’t be afraid, I am a Soviet citizen like you, who has descended from space and I must find a telephone to call Moscow!’
colchrishadfield:
The first human to leave Earth, Yuri Gagarin, flew this plane. In 1968 he died in one just like it, a loss for us all. (at Star City, Russia)
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bxf7LrOna_Y/?igshid=8qy5iomvjbuc
I always liked his words upon take off ‘I will see you again, dear friends!’
Also on landing and terrifying a pair of Russian peasants. ‘Don’t be afraid, I am a Soviet citizen like you, who has descended from space and I must find a telephone to call Moscow!’