Before launch, Glenn and ground crew talked about the weather. Gagarin and Korolyev discussed sausage and moonshine. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/space/8441717/Yuri-Gagarin-concerned-about-sausages-before-space-trip.html …
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not sausage -- kielbasa. most of conversations in ussr were about kielbasa in general.
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also, one horse detection-related soviet space fact: korolev was a political prisoner in the beginning.
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as such he was not allowed to sign his name on blueprints and had to use a special stamp known as a "hoof"
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they could not stop nerding out: the sum of digits in tupolev's team's stamps had to be 11 https://goo.gl/xvJiuV
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