Twice hero of the Soviet Union, pilot-cosmonaut Vladimir Dzhanibekov remembered how NASA astronauts were shocked when I first saw the toilet on Board the spacecraft “Soyuz”. He told this on the occasion of the anniversary of the docking of spacecraft “Soyuz” and “Apollo”, held in the Museum space.
According to Dzhanibekov, sanitation on the “Union” was “elementary”
“hole to pee through the valve”, – quotes its RIA “Novosti”.
Seeing her, the Americans asked the backup crew member Anatoly Filipchenko, what size output device. He replied that “XXXL”. According to Dzhanibekov, then to Filipchenko was a line of women for an autograph.
“[Alexei] Leonov in the direction of the rest,” added Dzhanibekov.
it is Worth noting that on the American “Apollo” for urinating at an astronaut had a special packages that are still used as a fallback means of the ISS. The Soviet spacecraft, starting with Yuri Gagarin’s flight, was equipped with a full bath cabin.
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