June 16, 2009

QOTD:

“ USSR’s first orbital toilets were custom-made. Gherman Titov, Andriyan Nikolayev, Pavel Popovich, Valery Bykovsky and Aleksey Leonov had to have their buttocks measured for their personal toilets. A research institute in Moscow still has the bronze toilet bowl, which first woman in space Valentina Tereshkova used.
Healthy diet of Russian cosmonauts ruins NASA’s space toilets - Pravda.Ru