С ДНЁМ РОЖДЕНИЯ, comrade Yuri Gagarin! I traveled with another space-man to Moscow a couple years ago to celebrate your achievements.
Archival video here at NASA.gov. Below, “The Columbus of The Cosmos” on BBC TV, July 11 1961.
Yuri: If you’re looking around for that monument to you in London, they’ve just moved it.
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