It is National Black Forest Cake Day (Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte) in USA! Celebrate it with piece of cake!
Why did the Black Forest Cake go to therapy?
Because it had a cherry complex!
Viktor Ivanovich PatsayevBorn 19 Jun 1933; died 29 Jun 1971 at age 38.Soviet cosmonaut, design engineer on the Soyuz 11 mission, in which he, mission commander Georgy Dobrovolsky, and flight engineer Vladislav Volkov remained in space a record 24 days and created the first manned orbital scientific station by docking their spacecraft with the unmanned Salyut station launched two months earlier. Soyuz 11 was guided automatically to 100 m, then hand-docked to the Salyut 1 scientific station. Equipment aboard Salyut 1 included a telescope, spectrometer, electrophotometer, and television. The crew checked improved on-board spacecraft systems in different conditions of flight and conducted medico-biological research. They died in cabin depressurization of Soyuz 11 during its return trip to earth. |
