Onboard Diary

Star City. Interesting Facts

These are what we learnt from our conversation with the cosmonauts:

• The use of water is entirely different. You can wash your body fully with a maximum of 200ml, but it won´t even get you wet. It doesn´t stick to your skin. It just floats in front of you.
• Back on Earth, gravity becomes so important. Suddenly everything weighs. Everything feels much heavier than usual. When eating an apple you can feel every bite falling down into your stomach.
• Cosmonauts become used to leaving objects and tools floating around in the air while working, then taking them back again when finished. Back on Earth, it is difficult for them to get used to leaving things on the table. They try to leave them in the air and then things fall down like heavy stones.
• Before carrying out an important command, cosmonauts have to solve a riddle to make sure they haven't lost their faculties.
• Sergei thinks that NASA reached the Moon in 1969. "That was the only possible moment to do it. Before or after that moment they would never be so irresponsible as to try it out.
• The sight of the Sun in the out space is the most beautiful thing ever seen by man. It is not possible to describe it. Not possible to record it. Only human eye can look at it.
• Cosmonauts have free weekends too. Every Friday, on the International Space Station, cosmonauts from different countries meet to watch a film all together. Watching 2001: A Space Odyssey in the out space is an incredible experience.

NOTE:

Yesterday we received a call from ROSCOSMOS. They were writing the collaboration letter for us and they wanted to know if we could fulfill an essential requirement for them to give us their full consent.

They forgot to ask us about something they want to include in their collaboration letter. Suddenly everything went silent and Julia asked them about that special condition.

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"The film won't look like Armagedon, will it?"

We burst into laughs and promised them it will have nothing to do with that!