It may seem incredible that in the world of manned spaceflight, of high-tech mission control and protocols for everything, there is a body of folklore, superstition, and tradition that is followed by each and every crew member as if performing a sacred rite.
The crew boards the transfer bus, suitably adorned with horseshoes, and on their trip to the pad performs yet another ritual harking back to Yuri Gagarin (first Russian cosmonaut to go to space).
The bus stops, the crew members file out, and repeating an act performed by the great Gagarin himself, urinate on the right rear wheel of the bus.
Female members are excused this obligation, but the more enthusiastic women cosmonauts have been known to take a vial of their urine with them and sprinkle it on the bus.
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