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hello i'm terry virts NASA astronaut and

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commander of the International Space

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Station the world's outpost in low Earth

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orbit living and working in this

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magnificent laboratory with my Russian

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and European crewmates would not be

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possible without the pioneering missions

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of the first human to fly in space Yuri

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Gagarin the first American to fly into

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space Alan Shepard as well as all of the

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astronauts and cosmonauts who flew on

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board the space shuttle Soyuz and

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international missions that helped to

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build this complex every year on April

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twelfth the international space

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community celebrates the anniversary of

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Yuri Gagarin's first flight into space

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in 1961 which was followed 20 years

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later to the date by the first flight of

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the space shuttle Columbia today I am

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glad to join you from Earth orbit in

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your global celebration no matter where

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a Yuri's Night event is taking place

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right now remember the history that

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brought us here and the exploration of