+ transmission and does not imply approval of content. See .sig + below. ========================================================================= Date: Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com> From: Subject: ========================================================================= Date: Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com> From: David Ruggiero <jdavid@halcyon.com> Subject: Re: Cosmonauts urinating on a bus tire? lklaes@aol.com (LKlaes) writes: :Would someone please explain to me the reason for the following Russian :tradition: Apparently cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin urinated on the tire of the :bus which took him to the launch pad for his VOSTOK 1 mission in 1961. :This tradition has been kept up by decades of following cosmonauts, :including astronaut-cosmonaut Norm Thagard before leaving on his MIR 18 :flight. If I had to guess, I'd bet that Laika started it." /m
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