Word: dezhurov
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...American spaceship and a Russian one were soaring through space together for the first time in two decades. The astronauts and cosmonauts checked to make sure the tunnel-like air lock linking the ships had no leaks. At length, the hatches swung slowly open. Mir's commander, Vladimir Dezhurov, floated through the lock and grasped Gibson's hand in joyous greeting...
...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...
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