...often one can hear questions like: comrade cosmonaut when will you fly to the moon, when will you fly to other planets, when will you (...ne ponimayu!...),
are you preparing to walk in space? Comrades, these are very big problems.

In order to, let's say fly around the earth, you need one system. To fly around the moon you need another system, If a flight is to last several days, maybe ten, maybe three weeks, if a longer flight is taken, a flight to neighboring planets in our solar system, say Mars or Venus, such a flight would take the course of several years. This presents many questions, questions regarding developing new technologies. Longer lasting, more up to date systems, testing the reliability of these systems, ensuring the flight equipment necessary for the flight.

A cosmonaut in space is placed in extraordinary conditions: a state of weightlessness, restricted space. He's in a spacecraft moving at great speed, about 28,000 kph. Entry into orbit presents tremendous stress, re-entry and landing also present tremendous stress. The surface of the front of the craft rises to 80,000 degrees. We need to create a certain type of protection, a certain type of cabin, a certain type of spacecraft,navigating systems.

Comrades, these are very complicated problems. Our scientists and scientists of other countries are working on them. We think that those tasks, those questions before us to be fulfilled in the comsos, we shall fulfill! We went to see how working people live.

And the most important thing, perhaps, that we can saw today is not just the beauty of our home, not just the beauty of its shores, perhaps the most important thing we saw was the beauty of your heart. The beauty of your labor, the beauty of your works.

Beautiful is the Earth. It's a beautiful home. But Earth, just by itself, would remain earth, if it wasn't for wise hands working on this Earth. Precisely wise hands, which ennoble this earth, which makes this earth a golden earth bringing people happiness, bringing people richness.

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