MOSCOW, March 23 Anna Kikina, the only woman in the Russian cosmonaut corps, could not decide who she would take with her into space — husband or cat, and decided that she would fly with both.
«A cat. Or better than a husband. But you can have both a cat and a husband,» Kikina said at a press conference in Moscow, answering the question of who she would take with her into space.
In addition, she said that before the launch, in addition to other tracks, she listened to a «cat song», the name of which she does not remember , is the soundtrack to a video from the Internet, made from recordings of a cat meowing.
Anna Kikina, the only woman in the Russian cosmonaut corps, made her first flight to the International Space Station from October 5, 2022 to March 12, 2023. She was the first of the Russians to stay and return from the station on the American ship Crew Dragon.