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April 21, 2012
Aleksandr Laveykin celebrates his birthday today. He spent 174 days in space on Mir in 1987. My favourite quote from him comes from Mary Roach’s Packing for Mars: “You really feel the absence of a woman,” Laveikin tells us. “There are sexual dreams, as a substitute. It’s constant through the flight. We were even discussing that maybe we have to take something from the sex shops. It was discussed at [Institute for Biomedical Problems].” Laveikin breaks into English, as he does sometimes to tweak a translation:  ”A rubber woman.” A blow-up doll. Ground control, he says, nixed the idea. “They said, ‘If you would do that, then we would need to put it in your schedule for the day.’ “ (Source)

Aleksandr Laveykin celebrates his birthday today. He spent 174 days in space on Mir in 1987.

My favourite quote from him comes from Mary Roach’s Packing for Mars:

“You really feel the absence of a woman,” Laveikin tells us. “There are sexual dreams, as a substitute. It’s constant through the flight. We were even discussing that maybe we have to take something from the sex shops. It was discussed at [Institute for Biomedical Problems].”

Laveikin breaks into English, as he does sometimes to tweak a translation:  ”A rubber woman.” A blow-up doll. Ground control, he says, nixed the idea. “They said, ‘If you would do that, then we would need to put it in your schedule for the day.’ “

(Source)

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