Yuri Gagarin

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1934 age 0

   Born

2. 1968 age 34

   Died

3. 1983 age 34

   CreditThe Right Stuff

• SGScott Glenn1 title
• LHLance Henriksen1 title
• JGJeff Goldblum1 title
• VCVeronica Cartwright1 title
• SWScott Wilson1 title
• OJO-Lan Jones1 title
• EHEd Harris1 title
• PKPhilip Kaufman1 title
• BHBarbara Hershey1 title
• HSHarry Shearer1 title

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  Photo:В. Жихаренко / ТАСС Обработка: Roman KubanskiyCC BY 4.0

• Let's go! (Russian: Поéхали, Poyekhali!)

  Yuri Gagarin, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I am a friend, comrades, a friend!

  Yuri Gagarin, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Dear friends, both known and unknown to me, fellow countrymen, men and women of all lands and continents!<br>In a few minutes a mighty spaceship will take me into the far-away expanses of the Universe. What can I say to you in these last minutes before the start? I see my whole past life as one wonderful moment. Everything I have experienced and done till now has been in preparation for this moment. You must realise that it is hard to express my feelings now that the test for which we have been training ardently and long is at hand. I don't have to tell you what I felt when it was suggested that I should make this flight, the first in history. Was it joy? No, it was something more than that. Pride? No, it was not just pride. I felt very happy - to be the first in space, to engage in an unprecedented duel with Nature - could one dream of anything greater than that?<br>But then I thought of the tremendous responsibility of being the first to accomplish what generations of people had drea

  Yuri Gagarin, CC BY-SA 4.0

• If all those people are getting wet to welcome me, surely the least I can do is get wet too!

  Yuri Gagarin, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Many people are interested in my biography. I have read in a newspaper that some irresponsible persons in the United States of America, who are distant relatives of the Gagarins princes and think that I am one of their offsprings. I have to disillusion them. I am a simple Soviet man. I was born March 9, 1934, to the family of a collective farmer. The place of my birth: Smolensk region, Gzhatsk district, the village of Klushino. I’ve never heard and don’t know any princes or nobility in my family tree. Before the revolution my parents were poor peasants. The older generation of my family, my grandfather and grandmother, were also poor peasants.

  Yuri Gagarin, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Rays were blazing through the of the earth, the horizon became bright orange, gradually passing into all the colors of the rainbow: from light blue to dark blue, to violet and then to black. What an indescribable gamut of colors! Just like the paintings of the artist Nicholas Roerich.

  Yuri Gagarin, CC BY-SA 4.0