Quote from the book Challenge to Apollo

[Alex Fraser]

Bykovskiy flew June 14-17 1963, still a record duration for a solo space 
mission.

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
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.


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