[FOTZeiss] Fw: Yuri Gagarin's daughter does first Western interview about her famous father

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--- On Tue, 4/12/11, LARRY KLAES <ljk4 at MSN.COM> wrote:

> From: LARRY KLAES <ljk4 at MSN.COM>
> Subject: Yuri Gagarin's daughter does first Western interview about her famous father
> To: HASTRO-L at listserv.wvu.edu
> Date: Tuesday, April 12, 2011, 1:02 PM

> "Yuri Gagarin's daughter: 'It wasn't
> enough for him, it was too quick!'"
> 
> To mark the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin becoming the
> first man in space, his elder daughter Elena gave her first
> ever interview for Western media about her father to Andrea
> Rose of the British Council. 
> 
> by
> 
> Andrea Rose 
> 
> April 11th, 2011
> 
> guardian.co.uk
> 
> 
> Andrea Rose: Do you have any memories of April 12, 1961,
> the day your father was the first man to fly into space?
> 
> Elena Gagarin: No, I was too young, I was only two years
> old, and don't have any recollections of the day itself.
> 
> AR: So when was the first time that you knew what your
> father had achieved?
> 
> EG: Well, it was just a part of my life and growing up. He
> was always the First Cosmonaut of the World for me, and his
> whole life was connected with space and space exploration.
> There wasn't a before and after for me.
> 
> AR: Did he talk to you as you grew up about taking that
> first flight?
> 
> Full interview here:
>  
> http://philosophyofscienceportal.blogspot.com/2011/04/yuri-gagarinfirst-man-in-space.html
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