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title: "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, I am a Soviet citizen like you, who has descended from space. And I must find a telephone to call Moscow."
date: 2015-07-29 14:10:12 +00
tags: tumblr
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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, I am a Soviet citizen like you, who has descended from space. And I must find a telephone to call Moscow.

— <b>Yuri Gagarin, </b>the first human to travel to space; upon re-entry Gagarin landed 280 kilometers away from the intended landing site, to the surprise of a farmer and his daughter who watched him fall from the sky (via <a class="tumblr\_blog" href="http://whats-out-there.tumblr.com/">whats-out-there</a>)

July 29th, 2015 7:10am