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Gagarin

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Yuri Gagarin, when he went back to Russia after coming back down, one of the biggest moments was when he was being presented to the nation and was being presented with some kind of award — he looked down and noticed that his shoe lace was untied.

from No Such Thing As A Rocking Chair In Space, 2014-12-12 at 00:16:11 · read transcript

Other times Gagarin came up

  1. If you'd been right out there. Look, if these things have been painted by someone else, I might not have enjoyed it quite as much. He was like, in Russia, he's so famous, or he was so famous, like only Gagarin would be more famous in space terms. He insisted on bringing up pencil and paper, didn't he, in his first space trip. So he drew the first pictures in space and drew kind of portraits of his fellow astronauts and drew the first of sunrise in space.

    291: No Such Thing As A Quintruple-Cooked Chip, 2019-10-18 · listen

  2. He does predictably mostly do pictures of... space, which I guess you would if you'd seen it, if you'd been right out there. Look, if these things have been painted by someone else, I might not have enjoyed it quite as much. He is like, in Russia, he's so famous, or he was so famous. Only Gagarin would be more famous. Yeah. In space terms. He insisted on bringing up pencil and paper, didn't he, in his first space trip.

    No Such Thing As A Quintruple-Cooked Chip, 2019-10-18 · listen

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