[FPSPACE] USNS Wally Schirra

Mon Sep 7 03:21:32 EDT 2009

> Talking from memory, I think Yuri Gagarin had a tracking ship named
> after him. But alas, that has since been scrapped. - Keith
>

Correct, the full name of this ship is "Kosmonavt Juriy Gagarin". Another
ships named after famous deceased Soviet cosmonouts are "Kosmonavt
Vladimir Komarov" and "Kosmonavt Vladislav Volkov".

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