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Yuri Gagarin: Dear friends, known and unknown to me, my dear compatriots and all people of the world.

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Yuri Gagarin: In the next few minutes a mighty spaceship will carry me off into the distant spaces of the universe.

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Yuri Gagarin: what can I say to you during these last minutes before the start? All my life now appears as a single beautiful moment to me.

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Yuri Gagarin: All I have done and lived for has been done and lived for for this moment.

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Yuri Gagarin: Let's Go!...

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Yuri Gagarin: DAWN this is CEDAR I'm feeling great, I'm continuing the flight. The G forces are slowly increasing.

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Sergei Korolev: Wishing you a good flight.

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Sergei Korolev: This is DAWN-1. Wishing you a good flight. Everything is normal.

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Yuri Gagarin: Thank you. goodbye. See you soon dear friend. Goodbye, see you soon.

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Yuri Gagarin: DAWN-1, this is CEDAR. The shroud separation has happened.

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Yuri Gagarin: Through the window I see the earth. The ground is clearly discernible.

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Sergei Korolev: CEDAR this is DAWN 1, all is OK, the spacecraft is flying well. Over.

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Yuri Gagarin: Understood. I see rivers and folds in the terrain. They are easily distinguishable.

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Yuri Gagarin: The visibility is good. Everything is so clear through the "Vzor" (Window). Over.

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Sergei Korolev: CEDAR this is DAWN 1, everything is normal.

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Yuri Gagarin: Understood. Reporting: I see Earth, the visibility is excellent.

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Yuri Gagarin: Visibility is good. Over.

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Sergei Korolev: CEDAR this is DAWN. How are you feeling? This is DAWN. Over.

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Yuri Gagarin: DAWN this is CEDAR, my condition is excellent. I'm continuing the flight.

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Yuri Gagarin: The G forces are slightly increasing. Vibration. I can tolerate everything well.

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Yuri Gagarin: My condition is excellent. I feel alert. In the "Vzor" (window) I am watching the Earth

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Yuri Gagarin: I can distinguish folds in the terrain... Snow... forest...

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Yuri Gagarin: I'm feeling great. How are things going with you? Over.

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Radio Moscow: Here is our special news.

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Radio Moscow: Today, the 12th April 1961.

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Radio Moscow: The first cosmic spaceship named Vostok with a man on board was orbited around the Earth from the Soviet Union.

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Radio Moscow: He is airman, Major Yuri Gagarin. An Airforce pilot.

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Radio Moscow: A citizen of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republic.

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Radio Moscow: The start of the space multi stage rocket is reported to have been successful,

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Radio Moscow: and after it gained the first cosmic speed, and separated from the last stage of the rocket carrier,

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Radio Moscow: ..the spaceship began its free flight on an orbit around the Earth.

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Yuri Gagarin: DAWN this is CEDAR.

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Yuri Gagarin: The second stage has shut off.

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Yuri Gagarin: Over.

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Sergei Korolev: CEDAR this is DAWN 1. Everything that should be is working.

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Sergei Korolev: The final stage... everything is normal. Over.

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Yuri Gagarin: Understood. I can hear it starting. I can feel it's working. I feel great.

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Yuri Gagarin: I can see Earth, visibility is good. Over.

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Sergei Korolev: CEDAR, CEDAR, this is DAWN. Well done, everything is going great. OK.

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Sergei Korolev: This is DAWN. Over.

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Yuri Gagarin: DAWN this is CEDAR, I can see clouds over the land... small, cumulus, and the shadows of them.

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Yuri Gagarin: Beautiful!... Beautiful... How do you read? Over.

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Radio Moscow: According to preliminary data

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Radio Moscow: the revolution of the spaceship around the Earth takes place within 89.1 minutes.

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Radio Moscow: Its lowest point from the Earth is a hundred and seventy five kilometre.

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Radio Moscow: Its highest, three hundred and two kilometre.

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Sergei Korolev: CEDAR this is DAWN, CEDAR this is DAWN. We can hear you perfectly. Continue the flight.

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Yuri Gagarin: The flight is continuing well The G forces are increasing slowly...insignificantly.

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Yuri Gagarin: I am coping well. vibrations are slight. I am feeling great.

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Yuri Gagarin: Through the Vzor I can see Earth... It's increasing covered by clouds. Over.

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Sergei Korolev: CEDAR this is DAWN. everything is going fine. We understood you. We can hear you perfectly.

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Sergei Korolev: This is DAWN. Over.

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Radio Moscow: The condition of the space flyer Major Yuri Gagarin…

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Radio Moscow: ... during the launching of the space ship Vostok to orbit was normal,

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Radio Moscow: and at present he is feeling well.

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Yuri Gagarin: Everything is going well. I can see Earth.

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Yuri Gagarin: I see the horizon through the Vzor.

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Yuri Gagarin: The horizon has slightly shifted towards my legs.

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Sergei Korolev: CEDAR CEDAR this is DAWN. CEDAR this is DAWN.

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Sergei Korolev: Everything is going well. How do you hear? How are you feeling. This is DAWN. Over.

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Yuri Gagarin: DAWN this is CEDAR, I can hear you perfectly. I am feeling great. The flight is continuing well.

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Yuri Gagarin: Through the Vzor I can see Earth. The visibility is good. Everything is visible and distinct.

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Yuri Gagarin: Some of the area is covered with cumulus clouds.

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Yuri Gagarin: We are continuing the flight. Everything is normal. Over.

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Sergei Korolev: CEDAR this is DAWN, CEDAR this is DAWN. Understood. Well done.

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Sergei Korolev: Good communication. Continue in the same spirit. This is DAWN. Over.

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Yuri Gagarin: Understood. Everything is working perfectly. Everything is perfectly working. We continue on!

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Yuri Gagarin: The flight is going well.

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Yuri Gagarin: The third stage is working.

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Yuri Gagarin: The TV light is working. I'm feeling great.

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Yuri Gagarin: I'm feeling alert.

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Radio Moscow: The angle of the declination of the plane of the orbit to the equator is 65 degrees 4 minutes.

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Radio Moscow: The weight of the spaceship with its space pilot is four tonnes, 725 kilogrammes,

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Radio Moscow: without the weight of the final stage of the rocket carrier.

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Radio Moscow: Two way communication has been established and are been maintained with the space flyer major Yuri Gagarin.

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Yuri Gagarin: Now the Earth is being covered more and more by clouds. Cumulus clouds. It's being covered by nimbo stratus clouds.

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Yuri Gagarin: It's sort of a film over the Earth. Already the Earth's surface is almost Not Visible.

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Yuri Gagarin: Interesting... yes... now it's open. Folds of the mountains... forests.

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Dawn 1: , DAWN 1, I can hear you very faintly. I am feeling good.

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Dawn 1: I am alert. I'm continuing the flight.

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Dawn 1: Everything is going well. The spaceship is working normally. Over. I am alert. I'm continuing the flight.

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Dawn 1: Everything is going well. The spaceship is working normally. Over.

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Dawn 1: At this stage already DAWN 1 is barely audible.

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Yuri Gagarin: Now through the Vzor the Sun is passing. The light from it is a little too bright.

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Yuri Gagarin: Now, the Sun... is leaving the [Vzor] mirrors.

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Yuri Gagarin: Sky... the sky is black. Black sky... but no stars in the sky are visible...

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Yuri Gagarin: Possibly the lighting is interfering. I'm switching to working lighting.

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Yuri Gagarin: …320 atmospheres. Feeling good. I am alert. I'm continuing the flight.

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Yuri Gagarin: I am feeling…. No I'm not feeling it. I can see slight rotation of the spacecraft around its axes.

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Yuri Gagarin: The feeling of weightlessness… the effect is pleasurable. It causes none of those phenomena.

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Yuri Gagarin: Do you understand me? Over.

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Yuri Gagarin: SPRING this is CEDAR.

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Yuri Gagarin: Separation from the rocket happened….

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Yuri Gagarin: …at 9 hours, 18 minutes 7 seconds as planned.

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Yuri Gagarin: I'm feeling well.

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Yuri Gagarin: Descent Mode 1 has switched on. Descent Control System Marker moves to position 2.

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Yuri Gagarin: All Descent Mode lights are on.

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Yuri Gagarin: I'm feeling good. I'm alert.

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Yuri Gagarin: Conditions in the capsule: pressure is 1 atmosphere, humidity 65, temperature 20, pressure in the compartment is 1 atmosphere.

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Yuri Gagarin: In the manual system 155, in the first automatic 155, the second automatic 157.

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Yuri Gagarin: Pressure in the De-orbit Thruster Tank is 320 atmospheres.

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Yuri Gagarin: The feeling of weightlessness I'm handling well. It's pleasant.

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Yuri Gagarin: I'm continuing the flight in orbit. How do you read? Over.

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Yuri Gagarin: Space craft continues to rotate. Rotation of space craft can be determined by the Earth's surface.

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Yuri Gagarin: The Earth's surface is moving to the left.

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Yuri Gagarin: The space craft is slightly rotating to the right… because of this.

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Yuri Gagarin: Good….beautiful… I'm feeling good.

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Yuri Gagarin: Continuing the flight. Everything is going perfectly.

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Yuri Gagarin: Everything is going perfectly.

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Yuri Gagarin: What's happening there DAWN? No reception.

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Yuri Gagarin: What's happening SPRING? There is also no reception.

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Yuri Gagarin: SPRING, SPRING, this is CEDAR. How do you hear me? Over.

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Yuri Gagarin: SPRING, this is CEDAR. I can't hear you. Can you hear me? Over.

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Yuri Gagarin: Feeling of weightlessness is interesting. Everything is floating. Floating is everything.

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Yuri Gagarin: Beautiful!….Interesting!!

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Yuri Gagarin: DAWN 3 this is CEDAR, how do you read? Over.

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Yuri Gagarin: SPRING, I can't hear. I can't hear SPRING.

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Yuri Gagarin: I'm feeling good, I'm alert.

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Yuri Gagarin: Everything is normal, I'm continuing the flight. The weightlessness is going OK.

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Yuri Gagarin: In general the flight is going well. What can you tell me? Over.

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Dawn 3 ground station: CEDAR this is DAWN. I can hear you now. How are you feeling?

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Yuri Gagarin: DAWN 3 this is CEDAR, the flight is going successfully.

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Yuri Gagarin: The feeling of weightlessness is normal. I'm feeling good.

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Yuri Gagarin: All the instruments, all the systems are working well.

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Yuri Gagarin: What can you report to me? I can hear you perfectly. Over.

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Dawn 3 ground station: CEDAR this is DAWN 3, we can hear you well. All instruments are working properly. You are feeling normal.

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Dawn 3 ground station: What can you tell me about the flight?

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Dawn 3 ground station: What can you tell me. Over.

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Dawn 3 ground station: CEDAR this is DAWN 3, no instructions from the 20th. No instructions. Everything is normal.

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Yuri Gagarin: Understood you, understood. No instructions from the 20th.

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Yuri Gagarin: Tell me your data on the flight.

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Yuri Gagarin: 'Hello' to Blondie!!" [Alexei Leonov]

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Radio Moscow: The shortwave transmitters aboard the spaceship are operating on 9.019 megacycles and 20.006 megacycles...

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Radio Moscow: ….on the outer short wave length of 143.625 megacycles.

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Yuri Gagarin: Here there is such beautiful halo. There's a rainbow first at the Earth's surface, and then this rainbow transitions down.

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Yuri Gagarin: Very beautiful, everything passed through the right porthole.

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Yuri Gagarin: Now the Earth has gone from the porthole. I am feeling great.

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Radio Moscow: The shortwave transmitters aboard the spaceship are operating on 9.019 megacycles and 20.006 megacycles...

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Radio Moscow: ….on the outer short wave length of 143.625 megacycles.

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Radio Moscow: The state of the space flyer during the flight is being observed with the help of radio telemetric and television devices.

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Radio Moscow: The systems ensuring the necessary conditions for life in the cabin of the spaceship are functioning normally.

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Radio Moscow: This is Moscow speaking - This is Moscow speaking.

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Radio Moscow: All radio stations of the Soviet Union are transmitting.

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Radio Moscow: Moscow time is 10.02.

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Radio Moscow: We are transmitting the news about the first human flight into space.

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Radio Moscow: On 12th April 1961 in the Soviet Union, sent into orbit around earth the first in the world spacecraft Vostok with a person on board.

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Radio Moscow: The pilot and cosmonaut of the spacecraft is a citizen of the Soviet Union, Major Gagarin Yuri Alexyvich.

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Yuri Gagarin: The stars are visible through the Vzor. How the stars are moving.

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Yuri Gagarin: It's a very beautiful spectacle. The flight is continuing in the shadow of the Earth.

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Yuri Gagarin: In the right porthole right now, I can see the star. It is passing from left to right in the porthole.

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Yuri Gagarin: The star passed… it's going, going.

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Yuri Gagarin: Attention attention. 10 hours, 9 minutes, 15 seconds. I emerged from the shadow of the Earth.

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Yuri Gagarin: Through the right porthole and the Vzor I can see…how the Sun came out.

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Yuri Gagarin: The space craft is rotating. It's likely that the Sun Orientation System is working.

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Yuri Gagarin: Now through the Vzor I can see Earth, I can see Earth. I'm flying over the sea.

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Yuri Gagarin: The direction of movement over the sea is easy to determine.

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Yuri Gagarin: Now I'm possibly moving sideways to the right.

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Yuri Gagarin: There is some cloud coverage. The direction of motion over the sea can be detected.

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BBC Radio: That was the weather. And now a look at the news.

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BBC Radio: Half an hour ago the Russians announced that they'd put the first man into space.

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BBC Radio: An announcement broadcast from Moscow Radio in English said…

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BBC Radio: …the world's first spaceship Vostok with a man on board had been launched today on a round the Earth orbit.

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BBC Radio: The first space navigator is major Yuri Gagarin.

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BBC Radio: Radio communications have been established and maintained with him.

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BBC Radio: He's feeling well and conditions in the cabin are normal.

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BBC Radio: The flight of the spaceship is continuing.

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Yuri Gagarin: Everything is working normally…everything is working normally

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Radio Moscow: That was a special news item on the launching of the first spaceship Vostok with a citizen of the Soviet Socialist Republics on board, Major Yuri Gagarin. This is Radio Moscow.