kirill richter yuri bashmet and here are some more fragments from the memoirs of sergei korolev's colleagues 9 months before the legendary flight, the select six pilots met academician korolev, he showed the first spacecraft, a silver-white ball with a diameter of about 2.5 m. korolev asked if there were anyone who wanted to get acquainted with the cockpit. allow me gagarin took a step forward, took off his shoes and in socks climbed up the ladder with a stick. sergey pavlovich nudged this deputy with his elbow, perhaps he will fly first, and so it happened. being the first is a character trait, probably, of another person who definitely possessed this property of vladimir semyonovich. did vysotsky have a very warm relationship with gagarin and, in general, vladimir semenovich, she fascinated everything that is connected with overcoming fear, and with pushing the boundaries of the familiar, and therefore, of course, the cosmos was very close and very interesting to him, but in many of his songs and poems, which can be written about something completely different, too, there are these echoes