Dolga and Valeria arrive at the statue of Gagarin. Dolga asks if he can go back to his home city of Houston, but Dolga says he doesn't know if he'll be able to do so. He's going to stay in the city for a while, he says, so he won't promise to come back. Valeria says she'll keep her dancing shoes, and Dolga promises to keep his boots. They walk back to the statue, which is over two-meter tall. Dolgano says he almost forgot to mention that the statue is taller than the man himself, who is only a hundred and fifty-eight cm tall. He says that at the time, all the elite astronauts were taller than him, because they didn't want to add too much space. So, they chose the short-tall man because he was the only one who could fit inside the capsule. The odds were only fifty-fifty that the man would make it back safely during the mission. . Btw, back in those days, posthumous double- promotions were common, since the man had been promoted to two ranks, normally a cause for celebration. In the days after the mission, when the man was promoted, he became "nervous" and wondered if he was going to die. He also said that the earth was blue, but the truth is that it's not true. Supposedly, the man said something about the earth being blue, and when he came back to Russia, he'd say the same thing again. Aww, that was a bit of a slip of the tongue. Anyhoodle, Dolga tells Valeria that when he's cured of his panic disorder, he can return to Russia on his own terms.