astronauts can not cry the same way as we are on earth - not evolved tears flow down, but remain on the eyes in the form of small balls.In addition, they can cause unpleasant burning, and tears have to whisk by hand.It turns out that the crying as a kind of psychological relief is not available to man in weightlessness.
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American astronauts on the Apollo spacecraft series celebrating small need in containers like to wear condoms.These products have been designed in different sizes, was originally called "small", "medium" and "large".However, after the astronauts, regardless of their anatomy chose only high resolution marking has been changed to "high," "Giant" and "incredible."
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Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev spent in orbit for a total of 803 days, which is a world record.At the same time it can be considered the owner of another record - the longest travel time among the inhabitants of our planet.According to the theory of relativity, the greater the speed at which the object moves, the more time for it slows down.Calculated that because of space flight, Krikalev at 1/48 of a second younger than if he had remained all the time in the world.In other words, the astronaut returned from orbit at a time point at 1/48 of a second later, the expected values under normal conditions.
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Of all the American ships, flew to the moon, a serious accident occurred only on Apollo 13, and it happened 13 of April.
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Countdown, which invariably accompanies the launch of space rockets, was not invented by scientists and astronauts, and filmmakers.For the first time the countdown has been featured in the German film "The Woman in the Moon" in 1929 for the discharge voltage.Subsequently, when you run this rocket designers simply adopted this technique.
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When NASA is preparing to launch lunar mission, no insurance company has not undertaken to insure the lives of astronauts, because the risks were too great.To compensate the families of the astronauts expenses after the possible death of the latter, NASA released a special card, on which the crew members were painted just before the departure.If one of the astronauts killed, their families would be able to sell the cards to collectors at a good price, but all lunar flights from Apollo 11 and Apollo 16 as a result there were no casualties.
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first animal returned to Earth after a space flight, were known to be dogs.But the leadership in the pass around the moon belongs to the turtles.It happened in 1968: the Soviet spaceship Zond-5 Central Asian steppe planted turtles.The choice was based on the fact that they do not need a large supply of oxygen, they can and a half weeks without food and long to be like in a lethargic sleep.
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dog Laika was sent into space, knowing that she would die.After that, the United Nations received a letter from a group of women from the state of Mississippi.They demanded to condemn the inhumane treatment of dogs in the USSR and put forward a proposal if the development of science should be sent to space beings, in our city for it has plenty Little Indians.
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According to popular myth, NASA has invested several million dollars to develop a pen that can write in space, and Russian cosmonauts used a pencil.In fact, the Americans initially wrote too pencils, only by mechanical or markers.The disadvantage of using them was the fact that in the case of small parts breaking pencil could harm the astronauts.In the second half of the 1960s, inventor Paul Fisher designed a pen that could write in any conditions, and offered her including NASA and costs $ 6 apiece.Subsequently, these pens were bought and Soviet (and later Russian) space agencies.
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known that the Soviet and Russian cosmonauts have a tradition - before leaving to watch the film "White Sun of the Desert".It turns out that this tradition has a logical justification.That's what the movie shows the astronauts as a standard camera work - his example to explain to them how to work with the camera and making plans.
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At the beginning of the era of space exploration no one could imagine the impact stays in space on human health, in particular, whether it will come down to mind.Therefore, for the transfer of a ship from automatic to manual mode was provided protection by entering a special code number, which was in a sealed envelope.It was assumed that in the state of insanity Gagarin can not open the envelope and understand the code.However, just before the flight code he still said.
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Charles Simonyi became the first two-time space tourist to fly to the ISS in 2007 and 2009.Then he got married and his marriage contract, among other things, contains a prohibition to fly into space for the third time.
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names of the astronauts that the Soviet authorities seem discordant, changed.Bulgarian Kakalovu had become Ivanov and Pole Hermashevskomu - Germashevsky.Substitutions Mongolian cosmonaut Jügderdemidiin Gürragchaa Ganhuyag originally bore the name, but at the insistence of the Soviet side has replaced it on Ganzorig.
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Cosmonauts Lyakhov and Ryumin secretly carried in the pockets of suits into orbit cucumber and orange.And in the first report showed that cucumber allegedly raised in a greenhouse of the station, but before that the plant did not give even the ovaries.Then astronauts admitted a joke, showing and orange.
