"The whole world is looking at us. We must not disappoint them."

"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…"

"To be the first to enter the cosmos, to engage, single-handed, in an unprecedented duel with nature-could one dream of anything more?"

"I saw no signs of extraterrestrial life."

"It was a very interesting flight. I enjoyed every minute of it."