Happy Space, Planet Earth!

[Kaffsky]

Referring to all the inhabitants of the earth before the start of April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin said:

 "Dear friends, relatives and strangers, countrymen, people of all countries and continents!

A few minutes later the mighty spaceship will carry me to the distant Universe.
 What can I say to you in these last minutes before the start!

 My whole life seems to me now, one beautiful moment.
 Everything that lived, what has been done before, had lived and done for the sake of this moment.
 You understand that it is difficult to understand the feelings of a time when very closely approached the hour of trial, to which we have been preparing long and passionately.
 It is hardly worth talking about those feelings that I experienced when I was asked to make this first-ever flight.

Joy! No, it was not only a joy.
Pride! No, it was not just pride.

 I have experienced great happiness! to be first in space, enter one by one in an unprecedented duel with nature - whether it is possible to dream about more !..."

And yet it became the first who managed to escape from the cradle of mankind.

He survived ... and he won!