- I could have gone on flying through space forever. [on the first manned space flight, quoted in the New York Times, 14 April 1961]
- I see the earth! It is beautiful! [first words ever spoken by a human in outer space]
- I don't know whether I'm the first man in space, or the last dog in space. [Joking about disabled manual controls on his space ship]
- [first words ever spoken by a human leaving Earth for outer space] Let's go!
- [first words ever spoken by a space traveller to Earthlings after planetfall] I'm one of us, comrades, one of us!
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