Yuri Gagarin

Who were the first space roommates? They were known as Expedition One, an American astronaut named Bill Shepard and two Russian cosmonauts, Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalev.

They launched from the exact same spot in Kazakhstan that Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, used.

That is so historical.

Did they have enough room inside? Definitely.

Go ahead.

But the minute that you start dismantling monuments to the Red Army or, you know, statues to Yuri Gagarin or Pushkin, this is now seen as an attempt at de-rucifying the country.

So.

Again, this is not a justification for intervening in Ukraine, but it's a way of explaining how Russia views itself as some kind of responsible caretaker for the Russian speaking people within the former Soviet Union.

An Apollo 1 patch carried up to honor Grissom, White, and Chaffee.

Two Soviet cosmonaut medals, one for Yuri Gagarin, one for Vladimir Komarov, who died on Soyuz 1, and the laser-ranging retroreflector.

Which is the only one that's still doing anything.

The only one that's still doing anything.

And precious socks is what we didn't wear.

That apart, the suit that we wore was very similar to what Yuri Gagarin wore, the first man in space.

He would have had additional items, but looks-wise, it looked very similar to what Yuri Gagarin wore.

And the suit is a skin-tight suit.

You would have seen it sometime.

... is very much up there.

Uh, it's down with, like, Yuri Gagarin was five foot two.

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Like, it's, it's just, just things stick in your head, and they won't leave you.

The head Russian scientist, Koroyov, I believe was his name.

He didn't trust Yuri Gagarin.

He wanted a different cosmonaut to be in charge of the thing.

So just before launch, he went into the... into the capsule and he disconnected all of the manual flight controls.