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Today is my favorite holiday, and I congratulate you all on this occasion!
It was on this day in 1961 that a person turned a dream into reality and proved that space is closer than we think. Millions of people in the mid-20th century aspired to reach for the stars. These heartfelt aspirations were reflected in art – artists, writers, and directors competed to come up with ideas of varying degrees of madness and genius, trying to guess what and who we would encounter. The spirit of exploration, the atmosphere of curiosity, delight, and anticipation of new discoveries – that is what I value in the culture of that time, and that is what I miss in modern science fiction. And the flight of a person into space is a symbol of that era, a symbol of the fact that we can see with our own eyes everything that was told to us in fantastic stories about space travel.
It is impossible to express in words how sorry I am that at some point something went wrong, and to this day we have not conquered either the Moon or Mars; but I believe that someday we will correct this, that humanity will unite and set out to conquer the distant stars. And for this, we should, among other things, thank the one who paved the first path into space.
Thank you, Yuri, we will always remember your feat.

And... Do I need to say what inspired me to create the comic?
A little context, since I still haven't provided background information on the lore: in the upper row are relatively young races that, at the time of the events of "Chronos," lead the Milky Way, and in the lower row are the oldest of the existing cosmic civilizations in the Milky Way (again, at the time of the comic's events).