Vladimir Shatalov
# Vladimir Shatalov

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Shatalov (em russo: Владимир Александрович Шаталов; nascido em 8 de Dezembro de 1927 em Petropavlovsk) foi um cosmonauta soviético que vôou em três missões tripuladas do programa Soyuz: Soyuz 4, Soyuz 8, e Soyuz 10.
       - When we look into the sky it seems to us to be endless. We breathe without thinking about it, as is natural... and then you sit aboard a spacecraft, you tear away from Earth, and within ten minutes you have been carried straight through the layer of air and beyond there is nothing! The 'boundless' blue sky, the ocean which gives us breath and protects us from endless black and death, is but an infinitesimally thin film. How dangerous it is to threaten even the smallest part of this gossamer covering, this conserver of life
          - Vladimir Shatalov citado em "The Home planet", Kevin W. Kelley - 1988 - 256 páginas