Yesterday we celebrated not only Easter, but also World Cosmonautics Day! 🚀 65 years ago, the first man — Yuri Gagarin — went into outer space. To mark this date, I’ve put together a small collection of jokes and space oddities. I hope you will enjoy it! 🧑‍🚀✨ 🚀 Space Life: Funny & Awkward “Good night, or good morning?” On the ISS, the Sun rises and sets 16 times a day, so astronauts live by GMT. But one rookie forgot to reset his watch and fell asleep… right during a communication session with Earth. The crew commander later said: “Next time, snore in Russian — it’s louder!” “Where are my socks?” In zero gravity, clothes tend to drift away. One German astronaut launched a full‑on “sock hunt” after a missing sock hid behind the panels for a month. When they finally found it, the whole crew held a “return celebration” — with floating cookies. 🎤 Space Pranks Someone brought a rubber snake to the ISS and left it in the ventilation. When it floated out right in front of a Japanese astronaut’s face, he swore in Russian for the first time in his life (before that, he only knew polite phrases). 📡 Funny Talks with Earth “We have a UFO here!” One crew jokingly reported seeing an “unidentified object” to Mission Control. Panic started on the ground — until the cosmonauts admitted it was just some loose thermal insulation. Mission Control’s reply: “Next ‘UFO’ will count as your vacation day.” 🌍 Return to Earth: Odd moments After long stays in zero gravity, astronauts forget Earthly habits. One Russian, back on solid ground, dropped a cup and froze in horror — he was waiting for it to float away. And a Canadian astronaut confessed that the first thing he did after landing was kick a stone — just to check that it falls. 👩‍🚀 I’m not a cosmonaut, but I can spend a long time looking at the sky and thinking about alien worlds. Happy belated Cosmonautics Day! 🌌