The Secrets of Soviet Cosmonauts

Dogs have only one flaw: they believe men (Elian J. Finbert)

JURIJ ALEKSEEVIC GAGARIN: Prince of the cosmos

LIFE

FLIGHT

Putting a man on a multi-stage rocket and projecting him into the moon's gravitational control field where passengers can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth - all this constitutes a wild dream worthy of Julius Verne. I am reckless enough to argue that such a man-made journey will never happen despite all future progress. (Lee de Forest, scientist, inventor, director)

AFTER FLIGHT

THE FLYING COFFIN

OTHER DETAILS THAT HAVE SURFACED LATER

DEAD

"Death would be sweeter if my gaze had your face as its last horizon, and if it did... a thousand times I'd like to be born a thousand times still to die." (W. Shakespeare)

"When my body is ashes, my name shall be legend." (Jim Morrison)

THE THREE K in the lives of Soviet cosmonauts.

One cannot truly know the nature and character of a man until he is seen to wield power. (Sophocles)

THE BRICKS OF KRUSHEV

I have the kitchenette, the living room and the sleeping corner. All in the same corner. (Boris Makaresko)

PROMISES NOT KEEPED UP: WITHOUT FOLLOWS

Astronauts are normal people who do extraordinary things... (Sandra Bullock)

The greedy one: ZHANNA YORKINA

The refined free thinker: VALENTINA PONOMAREVA

The skydiving champion: IRINA SOLOVYOVA

The emotional: TATIANA KUZNETSOVA

The artist: TATIANA MOROZYCHEVA

The only one who flew: SVETLANA SAVITSKAYA

JOHN GLENN'S BARBECUE

Without pots, without pans, without water, without oil, with the sole help of fire and a piece of iron on which to place the raw meat, the gesture of cooking regains the primordial sense that it must have had as soon as Prometheus gave fire to men. (Massimo Montanari)

THE CITY OF YAROSLAV - He who owns the Volga owns Russia

MIRROR, TELL ME, WHO IS THE RIGHT GIRL FOR THE SPACE?

- THE COMMUNIST FAITH

- THE WORKER WHO WENT INTO SPACE

A person who dares to waste even an hour of her time hasn't discovered the value of life.

AS THE WORLD SLOWLY DISAPPEARED FAR AWAY OVER THERE

When you walk the earth after you have flown, you will look at the sky because you have been there and you will want to return there. (Leonardo da Vinci)

- ONE GRAIN LEADS TO ANOTHER

- " No more bitches in the space" (Korolev)

- THE TERRIBLE MISTAKE

- CONCLUSIONS

- THE "RED MOSCOW" SCENT: THE IMAGE OF VALENTINA

There are only two inexhaustible legacies that we must hope to pass on to our children: roots and wings. (Harding Carter)

The First Walk in Space: Aleksej LEONOV. How difficult it is to talk about the moon! The moon is so dumb. It must be the ass we're always seeing . (Samuel Beckett)

SHORT EXCERPTS FROM KAMANIN'S JOURNALS. Diary. Daily documentation of a part of your life that you can tell yourself without blushing. (Ambrose Bierce)

OBJECTIVE MARS: USA AND EUROPE. Why people insist on going to Mars is something that doesn't enter my head. It's flat, cold, full of miserable rachitic plants that seem to come out of a nightmare of E. A. Poe. We've thrown billions into this not to make a penny of it. Anybody who goes in there without being sent, they must be touched in the brain. ( Arthur C. Clarke)

ON THE SPACE STATION TODAY. HOOKED UP TO THE TREADMILL

THE CAT THAT MADE ME AN ASTRONAUT (fairytale) Every time someone says, "I don't believe in fairies," somewhere there's a fairy that falls dead . (Peter Pan)