Editing Sigmund Jähn (section)

== Quotes ==

{{Blockquote|text="Dear television viewers of the German Democratic Republic, I am very happy to be the first German to take part in this manned space flight."|author=Sigmund Jähn|source=via radio transmission during his stay in space, 1978}}

{{Blockquote|text="The flight director's voice in the headphones sounded almost solemn: 'Podjom - climb!' At first it was as if thunder was thundering in the distance.The dull rumbling quickly got closer and closer. The rocket began to vibrate, as if trembling to get away from the crater of a volcano it was sitting on, as quickly as possible. I didn't see it from our capsule 50 meters above the earth, but eyewitnesses later told me about this unique spectacle. It looked like a fire-breathing dragon, emitting a sea of flames and smoke.The rays from the five engines raged red, yellow, blue and violet. A fascinating sight. My heart rate was elevated. But this heart pounding wasn't fear, but rather stimulating. And what I saw then was total bliss: our earth covered in bright blue. Simply fantastic."|author=Sigmund Jähn|source=in an interview with [[Superillu]] in 1998}}

{{Blockquote|text="As a pilot, I simply couldn't resist the offer to fly such a space capsule..."|author=Sigmund Jähn}}

{{Blockquote|text="Humans are so advanced, scientifically and technically, that they fly around the earth in spaceships. And on earth he smashes his head with the other one like in the Stone Age. It seems very vivid when you go around this small earth in 90 minutes."|author=Sigmund Jähn|source=[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-hzwIM_rX8&t=2624s Documentary ''Sigmund Jähn - The first German in space'' on Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk]}}