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...drove I began to relax, but as soon as we reached the test line I was suddenly more nervous than I'd been in a very log time. Rudy told me that the test would be a piece of cake, as long as I didn't get the rather large man with the walrus mustache standing across the street. Unfortunately, after several minutes of squirming on my part, Walrus himself approached the Honda. Rudy disappeared and Walrus settled into the passenger's seat...
...Canaveral, the Florida native faced the 18[degrees]F chill of the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. When he chatted with crew mates, he spoke the language not of Neil Armstrong but of Yuri Gagarin. And when he tried to follow the American astronauts' ritual of eating a piece of cake before launch, the Russian flight doctors said nyet. Instead, Thagard and his fellow crew members, cosmonauts Vladimir Dezhurov and Gennady Strekalov, carried out a Russian tradition: they urinated on the tires of the bus that had brought them to the launch...
...Entering his new home, Thagard got a welcoming kiss from cosmonaut Elena Kondakova and a traditional Russian gift of bread and salt. Back at the cosmonaut training center near Moscow, Thagard's wife Kirby and three sons had already celebrated. As their hero made history, they ate the cake he wasn't allowed to touch before launch...
Though been was by far the most popular refreshment, it was not the only offering supplied by the government department. senior honors con- centrators were also treated to cake,champagne, chips, pretzels, music and the movie"With Honors," a 1994 film whose main character isalso a Harvard government thesis writer...
...building was meant to serve an educationalpurpose. The fact that it's an architectural gemis icing on the cake," he said...