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As my memory serves me correctly, he was quite broken up about his close friend who was incinerated upon re-entry in those early days, because his friend had been sounding the safety alarm to deaf ears.
I understand they had to handle Gagarin quite carefully after that, since he was quite bitter for such a public figure.
If you do a web search on Yuri Gagarin, you’ll find several interesting articles.
Love the scene in “The Right Stuff” in which Jeff Goldblum is hauling ass down the hall, disrupts a high-level meeting, and blurts out “It’s Gagarin!”
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The Russian Kontinental Hockey League plays every year for the Gagarin Cup, it’s championship trophy.
Yes, Gargarin’s plane crash was also a murder.
Well, when he climbed into that Vostok they had launched 24 so far. 12 had exploded. He and our Mercury guys were just brave beyond belief.
The astronauts of today can’t even compare to their cojones.
I understand they had to handle Gagarin quite carefully after that, since he was quite bitter for such a public figure.
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He was very photogenic and personable. The Soviets made great use of him for publicity by sending him on tours. Too bad he died a few years later in a senseless plane crash.
The first cosmonaut to die in the Soviet space program was because of alcohol too.
He was in a pressurized O2 chamber, and used an alcohol wipe to clean off the residue from an adhesive sensor on his skin. He tossed the pad, and instead of in the trash can, it landed on a heated, electric hot plate.
He had no chance.
Well, the first one to make it back alive.
IIRC, the guy was quite the alcoholic.
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Over there they simply call themselves Russians.
Like G Larry, I always wondered about his plane crash.
Flying is dangerous enough as it is, so a plane crash is not in and of itself suspicious.
Unless you are a Soviet public figure who is on the verge of being a loose cannon. But I don’t have any proof of that, so that is as far as I take it.
Valentina Tereshkova is still around.
At the very end, they show some poor guy, burnt to a black crisp with his eyes looking very white, breathing through a trach tube, by common accounts, only minutes before he died.
It was a very powerful thing to show a bunch of impressionable eighteen year old guys.
Later, someone told me the story was, he put the tip of the hose inside his coveralls to let the venting oxygen mist cool him off on a very hot day. He then went to have a smoke, and when he lit up...he lit up like a human torch.
The training sure worked. Nobody I knew ever farted around with LOX.
I agree 100%. Strapping yourself onto the top of what was an IBCM (Atlas) and shooting into space...yep.
Big stones.
Yes, I believe that was the guy.
When I was 13, my family was returning from service overseas, and my dad took us on a tour of Europe in a VW bus. We obtained an audience with the Pope (due to my little brother who wrote the Pope a letter asking to meet him) so our family of eight thought we would be in a small room with the Pope.
Turned out they had just opened a new audience hall, and there was room for thousands of people, so it was a big crowd.
In the middle of the thing, the Pope was saying something in Italian we didn’t understand, and everyone around us gasped...my mother asked a couple of nuns in front of us what happened, and she said they just received word that three Soviet cosmonauts had died in re-entry.
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