Date:         Sat Apr 01 11:26:20 PST 1995
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From:         palmer@alumni.caltech.edu (David M. Palmer)
Subject:      [sci.space.science] Re: Cosmonauts urinating on a bus tire?

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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