I think I can say without a doubt the most impressive thing was the change of the sky. The immediate step so pale in the morning to a black dotted with stars that appeared suddenly was something I will never forget. It is true that weightlessness is an incredible experience, but I had trained for it and had experienced at least partially, in-flight preparations, so artificial. But I was as surprised as the feeling of having left behind the planet. On the monitor screen still see the surface, not unlike one of those satellite photos are so common to everyone, but what I saw before me was not comparable to any photo, any representation that was very detailed. Anticipated So this time, he feared me down, perhaps readers have ever felt that DESPAGE, this long-anticipated moment when it finally occurs to be more bland and less special as we had imagined. Well, that was one of my biggest fears: imagine that the strong attachment to the seat, take-off nerves, the tension of the initial acceleration would leave me stunned and unable to enjoy the show, nothing is further from the truth. It was impossible to avoid such beauty.
take my eyes of the planet's surface that slowly slid to the left of the window, to find against the mighty moon. Someday I said, another would step fortunate that surface. Through the open door that had just one day we might consider the area of \u200b\u200bour home planet from different points of view, not only in a rudimentary orbit spacecraft as one in which I was, but from another rocky surface like the moon shining in front of me or your partner, on the other side of the planet. I wondered, in the middle of my ramblings, if my name would be as remembered as the first human to set foot on Phobos or Deimos. But the mysteries of history are that, mysteries, probably never get to know who was actually the man who gave his name to my ship and my mission. Mission I had become the first man launched into the orbit of Mars, after centuries since the first human had set foot in her red and barren land. Centuries of darkness and back, plus continuous years of revolutionary technological advances, hiding the tracks of the first cosmonauts, because since humans left the earth had lost much of the testimony of his days there. We will never know if it was the first to tread the moon of the earthlings to leave their planet, or simply look at the sky and distinguish the bodies orbiting around the same sun that now baffles me. Was only aware of the importance of his name, that at some point that name was associated with the space, man's liberation from bondage, to the realization of a dream.
have asked me to write these lines registered to leave my feelings after this important mission. For that to happen again forgetting the exploits that show what humans can. I am living testimony to a civilization is able to return to the place reached years ago: we have returned to space after centuries of condemnation to a planet that never was the origin of our species, much as we did ours. Perhaps because of these words some day my name will be remembered, and named one new spacecraft carrying the descendants of our species even further to the stars, like Yuri Gagarin, whoever he was, lent his name to the ship that now has allowed me to be part of history.
This entry is a modest tribute to Yuri Gagarin, the first man to travel into space on April 12, 1961, and is part of the initiative Yuriesfera .
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