"Cosmonauts are above the ongoing squabble, no matter what officials decide," said Padalka, a veteran of two space missions, according to the newspaper. "We are grown-up, well-educated and good-mannered people and can use our own brains to create normal relationship. It's politicians and bureaucrats who can't reach agreement, not us, cosmonauts and astronauts."
He said he had inquired before the current mission whether he could use an American gym machine (on board the International Space Station) to stay fit.
"They told me: 'Yes, you can.' Then they said no," he was quoted as saying. "Then they hold consultations and they approve it again. And now, right before the flight, it turns out again that the answer is negative."
While sharing food in the past helped the crew feel like a team, the new rules oblige Russian cosmonauts and U.S. and other astronauts to eat their own food, Padalka said, according to the report.
"They also recommend us to only use national toilets," he was quoted as saying.
With government in charge of health care, there will be even more of these kinds of people making decisions for and about you.
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Here is an idea, just be friends and share your things like civilized human beings. Who's going to know?
(Why even ask your government? They'll only screw up the whole, international community working together thing by telling you who you can't play with. What they don't know won't hurt you.)
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