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Valeri Ryumin
(16 Aug 1939 - )
Russian cosmonaut who flew on several Soyuz space station missions (1977-80) as Flight Engineer and on STS-91 Discovery (1998).
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Science Quotes by Valeri Ryumin (1 quote)
We entered into shadow. Contact with Moscow was gone. Japan floated by beneath us and I could clearly see its cities ablaze with lights. We left Japan behind to face the dark emptiness of the Pacific Ocean. No moon. Only stars, bright and far away. I gripped the handle like a man hanging onto a streetcar. Very slowly, agonizingly, half an hour passed, and with that, dawn on Earth. First, a slim greenish-blue line on the farthest horizon turning within a couple of minutes into a rainbow that hugged the Earth and in turn exploded into a golden sun. You’re out of your mind, I told myself, hanging onto a ship in space, and to your life, and getting ready to admire a sunrise.
— Valeri Ryumin
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See also:
- 16 Aug - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Ryumin's birth.