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Guardian: No-fly zone – Russian space suit redesign halts lucky pee ritual

Published Aug. 29, 2019 at 7:43 pm

Photographers take pictures as Russia's Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft carrying the members of the International Space Station (ISS) expedition 57/58, Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin and NASA astronaut Nick Hague, blasts off to the ISS from the launch pad at the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Baikonur on Oct. 11, 2018.

Photo by AFP

Russia has unveiled a new spacesuit but the design may have to be changed to continue a decades-old tradition – making a stop to pee on the way to the launch.

The Sokol-M prototype suit was designed as a replacement for suits worn during launches to the International Space Station (ISS) on Soyuz spacecraft.