A true story, on the other hand, is that when the vacuum cleaner failed on the Mir space station, some engineer at Baikonur went to the supermarket buy another

A true story, on the other hand, is that when the vacuum cleaner failed on the Mir space station, some engineer at Baikonur went to the supermarket buy another ordinary one to be loaded on the next Progress flight. NASA on the other hand, always used specially designed vacuum cleaners (according to one of Patrick Baudry's book).