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🇨🇦William Shatner

Entertainment

b. 1931

"Captain Kirk was captain of everybody's fate. He was a dictator."

"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."

"I think humans will reach Mars, and I would like to see it happen in my lifetime."

"What are we doing here? We're reaching for the stars."

"Once I got into space, I was feeling very comfortable in the universe. I felt like I had a right to be anywhere in this universe, that I belonged here as much as any speck of stardust, any comet, any planet."

"Many people are losing themselves.They don't have something to believe in...We should believe in ourselves and be more self-confident."

"There was one more impression we wanted to transmit: our feeling of closeness to the Creator of all things. This was Christmas Eve, December 24, 1968, and I handed Jim and Bill their lines from the Holy Scriptures."

"It's easy to sleep floating around — it's very comfortable. But you have to be careful that you don't float into somebody or something!"

"Gee, I thought we'd be a lot higher at MECO!"

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🇷🇺Valentina Tereshkova

Politics

b. 1937

"If I had money, I would enjoy flying to Mars... This was the dream of the first cosmonauts. I wish I could realize it! I am ready to fly without coming back."

"But sooner or later people will be able to buy a ride into space."

"What it is you identify with begins to shift. When you go around the Earth in an hour and a half, you begin to recognise that your identity is with that whole thing."

"Stealing is OK as long as it's done well."

"What someone says or writes about me doesn't change the way I am; it only changes my opinion about that person."

"The coolest thing for me is the experience of floating and not feeling my weight. And hanging by a window just after sunset and watching the stars in the big black dome of the sky as the earth moves underneath."

"I felt the power of God as I'd never felt it before."

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Sultan bin Salman bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud

Politics

b. 1956

"The first day or so we all pointed to our countries. The third or fourth day we were pointing to our continents. By the fifth day, we were aware of only one Earth."

"The fact that every part of this ship was built by the low bidder."

"John Glenn Honored as an Ambassador of Exploration"

"Photo, Audio and Video with Yuri Gagarin , online version of CD created to his 70th anniv. on the homepage of Russian state archive for scientific-technical documentation ."

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