Happy 44th!

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Облетев Землю в корабле-спутнике, я увидел, как прекрасна наша планета. Люди, будем хранить и приумножать эту красоту, а не разрушать ее!
       -- [Yuri] Gagarin

Circumnavigating the Earth in my orbiting spacecraft, I saw how beautiful our planet is. People, let's protect and enhance this beauty, and not destroy it!

My translation, so it may not conform to "official" ones.

It is, perhaps, fitting to here mention some lines written by Robert A. Heinlein, who expressed thoughts along a similar theme in his short story The Green Hills of Earth, which were mentioned and partially quoted in an exchange between Earth and the Moon during the Apollo 15 mission. The final lines are:

We pray for one last landing
On the globe that gave us birth;
Let us rest our eyes on the fleecy skies
And the cool green hills of Earth.
       -- Robert A. Heinlein

Here's to the future!

Cheers...