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<div dir="auto"><font face="Comic Sans MS"><font size="4">Bykovskiy
flew June 14-17 1963, still a record duration for a solo
space mission.<br>
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Bykovskiy raised somewhat of a scare a day earlier when he
transmitted a message to the Khabarovsk ground station on
short wave that" At 9 hours 5 minutes there was the first
space knock." This report was immediately passed on to
Korolev and Tyulin, and there was lively <br>
speculation on everything from meteor strikes to
extraterrestrials. Soon, when ground control directly asked
Bykovskiy about the incident, he replied that what he had
said was that "there had been the first space stool," the
Russian word for" stool" (stu/) being mistaken for the word
for" knock"" (stuk). Either way, it was a historic moment
because it was the first time a human had had a bowel
movement in space, another dubious first for the Soviet
space program.<br>
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<div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"> <font
style="color:rgb(153,0,0)" size="4">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</font><br>
<span style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif">It's a
small </span><span
style="color:rgb(51,102,255);font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif">world</span><span
style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif">, till you try
to dig a </span><span
style="color:rgb(153,102,51);font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif">hole</span><span
style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif"> in it.</span><br>
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