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Komarov's death has attracted its share of rumors, and the most gruesome is that his death screams were recorded by American monitoring stations. According to this account, he knew while still in orbit that he was doomed and took part in a series of tear-jerking conversations with his wife, with Premier Aleksey Kosygin, and with his associates in the space program. As he began his death dive back to Earth, he reported rising temperatures, then began screaming. It is difficult to reconcile these accounts with what is reliably known about the Soyuz 1 space disaster. According to Yevsikov, major problems struck the spaceship almost immediately; at one point, an angry Komarov raged, "Devil-machine, nothing I lay my hands on works!" While he did have trouble orienting his craft for reentry, he eventually succeeded. And his descent crossed far northwestern regions of Soviet territory not normally covered by American space-tracking facilities likely to overhear him. A fouled parachute, which was the official Soviet explanation, would probably not have been noticeable to the pilot; alternately, disintegrating on reentry would have occurred during the normal "blackout" period when all radio communications are normally cut off. The "death screams" rumor just doesn't seem credible. Yet in April 1987, with glasnost in full swing, the anniversary-crazy Soviets ignored the twentieth anniversary of Komarov's death. Full official candor about the Soyuz 1 tragedy remains out of reach.
In March 1968 Yuriy Gagarin's death shocked the Soviet Union and the world. He had been on a routine jet training flight, with Vladimir Seryogin, his flight instructor. But the official Soviet news media never explained the crash, and dozens of private theories sprang up to account for it. In some, Gagarin was drunk, or hot-rodding, or actually attempting to shoot a moose from the opened cockpit. In others, the Kremlin had done away with him to avoid embarrassment over his [page 173] womanizing or because he was a "Khrushchev creature." Officially Gagarin has become a "patron saint of space travel"; the details of his death appeared irrelevant to official histories. Only in early 1987 were the accident investigation files opened to Soviet journalists; while debunking rumors about drunkenness, the records were not kind to Gagarin's sainthood when the published reports attributed the crash to "pilot error."
Originally posted by ThirdEyeofHorus
reply to post by 2manyquestions
This is what communism is about. There are still people dedicated to the ideology of communism. They are running the halls of the WH as we speak. In the 80's we used to talk about the Pravda and how much disinfo they spewed. Communism has just taken a more quietly insidious tone---with concepts like green technology. They are willing to sabotage oil drilling platforms, leaking massive amounts of oil into the ocean for their ideology.edit on 28-3-2011 by ThirdEyeofHorus because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Drunkenparrot
reply to post by Xeven
I believe the wheels of the giant machine that was the Apollo program were to far committed to achieving Kennedy's vision of reaching the moon within the decade to have ground to a halt if Apollo 11 had turned into a disaster.
They would have possibly slowed the program down and there may have been recriminations within Nasa over the wisdom of previously accelerating the program but that is a guess.
Somebody like Jim Oberg would be welcome to comment..?edit on 28-3-2011 by Drunkenparrot because: Sp
Originally posted by Liberterius
Ahh cosmonauts, the rats of space. I feel as much as when I clip a fingernail. No ruskie flag on the moon is there.edit on 28-3-2011 by Liberterius because: (no reason given)