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The Russians who came from space

The Russians who came from space were required to present
their passports. After 4 months in space, after they suffered
from the American physician, who complained day and night,
a surprise from the American bureaucracy was awaiting
[expected] the Russian cosmonauts who landed in the US

It appears [becomes clear] that the two, who moved to the
"Atlantis" shuttle in a complicated operation in space and who
came back in the shuttle last weekend to the launch base in Cape
Canaveral in Florida, did not imagine that an immigration officer
with a harsh-looking face would wait for them on the ground and
ask for their entrance visas.

"What? Visas? We don't even have passports. We came from
space!" – laughed the two. With the intervention of the American
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the officer became more flexible and
granted them a temporary entrance permit until their passports
arrive by flight. A regular, commercial flight from Moscow.

The Russians complained about their friend in the space voyage,
the American - Norman Thagard. “He complained all the time
and got on our nerves. We thought we were going to explode”;
the problem of the two Russians was that they did not have where
to escape from the complaints of the American…
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