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!"
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!
ReplyDeleteNot to mention he started the cosmonaut tradition of urinating on the wheel of the bus that took him to the rocket for good luck...
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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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