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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- Attributed to
- Yuri Gagarin
- Source
- Russian phrase, handwritten and signed after his historic spaceflight, photo of facsimile published in Syny goluboi planety 3rd.edition (1981) by L. Lebedev, A. Romanov, and B/ Luk'ianov; the first edition was translated into English as Son
- Culture / tradition
- Russian
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Photo: Colin · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source · Portrait: Александр Моклецов / СовИнформБюро (CC BY 4.0)
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