"I felt wonderful when the gravity pull began to disappear. I suddenly found I could do things much more easily than before. And it seemed as though my hands and legs and my whole body did not belong t…"

"Space flights can't be stopped. This isn't the work of any one man or even a group of men. It is a historical process which mankind is carrying out in accordance with the natural laws of human develop…"

"Orbiting Earth in the spaceship, I saw how beautiful our planet is. People, let us preserve and increase this beauty, not destroy it!"

"I saw no signs of extraterrestrial life."

"The feeling of weightlessness was somewhat unfamiliar compared to Earth conditions. Here, you feel as if you are suspended in a horizontal position."