I am watching the Earth. The visibility is good. I feel well and cheerful. The machine is functioning normally.

I could have gone on flying through space forever.

The path of a cosmonaut is not an easy, triumphant march to glory. You have to get to know the meaning not just of joy but also of grief, before being allowed in the spacecraft cabin.

I am watching the Earth. The visibility is good. I feel well and cheerful. The machine is functioning normally.

When I orbited the Earth in a spaceship, I saw for the first time how beautiful our planet is. Mankind, let us preserve and increase this beauty, and not destroy it!

Looking at the earth from afar you realize it is too small for conflict and just big enough for co-operation.

Circling the earth in the orbital spaceship I marvelled at the beauty of our planet. People of the world!! Let us safeguard and enhance this beauty-not destroy it