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Glad to see you.
Ah, hello, very glad to see you.
Alexei Leonov and Thomas Stafford
Colonel Alexei Leonov, in accented English, to Brigadier General Thomas Stafford, who replied in his own accented Russian. The two men then shook hands, about 140 miles above France, after docking Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft in the first international human spaceflight, 17 July 1975. 
You just can’t comprehend it. Only out there can you feel the greatness — the huge size of all that surrounds us.
Alexei Leonov
Regards the first space walk. Quoted in a 2014 BBC interview in BBC Sky at Night Magazine, 50 years of spacewalking, published 18 March 2015.
The Earth was small, light blue, and so touchingly alone, our home that must be defended like a holy relic. The Earth was absolutely round. I believe I never knew what the word round meant until I saw Earth from space.
Alexei Leonov
Regards his 18 March 1965 historic first spacewalk, quoted in 1988 book The Home Planet.
What struck me most was the silence. It was a great silence, unlike any I have encountered on Earth, so vast and deep that I began to hear my own body: my heart beating, my blood vessels pulsing, even the rustle of my muscles moving over each other seemed audible. There were more stars in the sky than I had expected. The sky was deep black, yet at the same time bright with sunlight.
Alexei Leonov
cosmonaut, LIFE magazine, November 1988.
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