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January 22, 2009

Cosmonautic Vodka Tube

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The Russian vodka tube joke

34 years ago, when Vance Brand and the other Apollo astronauts docked with the Soviet Union’s Soyuz, they engaged in some historic packaging humor. From a press release on Nasa’s website:

Brand recalled that the docking was carried out as if in slow motion.

“We came together at a slow rate and we felt a little gentle bump when we docked. We looked through an optical sight to line it up. There was some relative movement between the spacecraft and then it quickly stopped,” Brand said.

About three hours later, Stafford and Russian commander Alexei Leonov exchanged greetings. Stafford offered his greeting in Russian and Leonov gave his in English.

“It was a joke among us that the Russians would have a Vodka toast in space. In orbit they had a tube with Vodka written on the side. It was really a Russian soup, called borscht. They had a good sense of humor,” Brand said.

Former Astronaut Recalls Historic Apollo-Soyuz Mission
July 21, 2000

Now, thanks to a company called Go More, the vodka-tube concept is no longer a joke…

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Randy Ludacer
Beach Packaging Design

No Responses to “Cosmonautic Vodka Tube”

  1. karla heredia says:
    November 2, 2009 at 2:38 am

    this is sooo beutiful!! im making a hotel products design from a proyect from my school and i get in love about your form investigation and work!
    cheers from mexico

  2. Sydney Hotels says:
    December 14, 2009 at 8:15 am

    Cool collection. I enjoy collecting these cute miniature from the hotel. Well it isn’t stealing…That’s package of what we paid in staying in the hotel. A sort of compliments though.

  3. Cairns Hotels says:
    January 7, 2010 at 9:01 pm

    I also collecting hotel soaps, and hotel souvenirs. This a cool collections.