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Contributors: crookedindifference, bumerangue, propagandery, rocketmagic, rostenbach
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Space crush: Gherman Titov (1935–2000). In: Kulcsár István: A világűr meghódítói. Móra Ferenc Könyvkiadó, Budapest, 1962.
Titov was the second human to orbit the Earth aboard Vostok 2, the first person to orbit the Earth multiple times (a total of 17), to spend more than a day in space, to sleep in orbit and to suffer from space sickness. He was the first to pilot a spaceship personally and he made the first manual photographs from orbit, thus setting a record for modern space photography. A month short of 26 years old at launch, to this day he remains the youngest - and definitely the most handsome - person to fly in space.
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Aleksandr Laveykin celebrates his birthday today. He spent 174 days in space on Mir in 1987.
My favourite quote from him comes from Mary Roach’s Packing for Mars:
“You really feel the absence of a woman,” Laveikin tells us. “There are sexual dreams, as a substitute. It’s constant through the flight. We were even discussing that maybe we have to take something from the sex shops. It was discussed at [Institute for Biomedical Problems].”
Laveikin breaks into English, as he does sometimes to tweak a translation: ”A rubber woman.” A blow-up doll. Ground control, he says, nixed the idea. “They said, ‘If you would do that, then we would need to put it in your schedule for the day.’ “
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Aleksandr Laveykin celebrates his birthday today. He spent 174 days in space on Mir in 1987.
My favourite quote from him comes from Mary Roach’s Packing for Mars:
“You really feel the absence of a woman,” Laveikin tells us. “There are sexual dreams, as a substitute. It’s constant through the flight. We were even discussing that maybe we have to take something from the sex shops. It was discussed at [Institute for Biomedical Problems].”
Laveikin breaks into English, as he does sometimes to tweak a translation: ”A rubber woman.” A blow-up doll. Ground control, he says, nixed the idea. “They said, ‘If you would do that, then we would need to put it in your schedule for the day.’ “
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Stamp of Lunokhod 1, the first lunar rover. It landed on the moon on Nov 17 1970.
First launch of soviet Buran 1.01 spacecraft. November 15th, 1988 at 3:00 UTC, Baikonur Cosmodrome (Space Center), Launch Complex 37 left (110L), Site 110. It was lifted into orbit by Energia rocket. Full automated unmanned flight. Buran orbited the Earth twice in 206 minutes of flight. It was first and the only one flight of Energia-Buran program.
“Soviet nation, the pioneer of the cosmos! Glory!”
Motherland! In the race for the stars, you are the first which burns above the earth. Glory to science, glory to work ! Glory to the Soviet regime!
Source: Roscosmos Facebook page.
