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(B2431) wrote:

From: "Snuffy Smith"

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Not at all. Sputnik created the space race...which Russia eventually lost,
but you won't find a single yankee soul who knows who Tereshkova was.


Want to place a bet on that?
She was Gargarin's wife. Oh, and she was the first girl cosmonaut.

Dan, U. S. Air Force, retired

Speaking of Gagarin, it is rumored that he really wasn't killed in an
accident flying a MiG-15, but was murdered for straying away from the
official Party line. Apparently, he came back from space and realized
that the whole Soviet apparatus was nothing but a Potemkin village and
wasn't afraid to say so.