He was aloft for 108 minutes. When he landed next to a startled woman and young girl he was asked, "Can it be that you have come from outer space?" to which Gagarin replied: "As a matter of fact, I have!"
"Orbiting Earth in the spaceship, I saw how beautiful our planet is. People, let us preserve and increase this beauty, not destroy it!"
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Now this was when cosmonauts had the right stuff, and then some... he had to bail out of his plummeting capsule at 7 kilometers high and fucking parachute down to the ground! None of those soft ocean splash-downs for the Rooskies!
Not to mention he started the cosmonaut tradition of urinating on the wheel of the bus that took him to the rocket for good luck...
-E
Now that is a comment, ladies and gentlemen! Always love your input E and hope to meet you on the physical plane one of these days.
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