One other Soviet cosmonaut died on reentry. Name escapes me at present - was
it Soyuz 1?; but Gagarin - who had attempted to prevent the flight, as it
was known on the factory floor that the flight was a death trip - probably
suicided by crashing his plane (the plane crashed... we don't know
In a message dated 1/14/01 2:16:27 PM Pacific Standard Time,
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One other Soviet cosmonaut died on reentry. Name escapes me at present - was
it Soyuz 1?; but Gagarin - who had attempted to prevent the flight, as it
was known on the factory floor that the flight was a
It was Vladimir Komarov, aboard Soyuz 1, due to parachute failure.
"Clements, Robert" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One other Soviet cosmonaut died on reentry. Name escapes me at present - wasit Soyuz 1?; but Gagarin - who had attempted to prevent the flight, as itwas known on the factory floor that
-Original Message-
From: Clements, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sunday, January 14, 2001 2:15 PM
Subject: RE: Golden Disasters
One other Soviet cosmonaut died on reentry. Name escapes me at present -
was
it Soyuz 1?; but Gagarin - who had
According to the dedication of a book that one of my children recently
brought home from our local library (Andrew Wilson, "Space Shuttle Story,"
The Hamlyn Publishing Grup Ltd., London, UK, 1986), the following folks have
given their lives in the conquest of space,
28 January 1986 (Challenger
I have posted the first issue of my Io newsletter, Pillanian News, on
my website. The first issue contains 4 abstracts of recently
published papers, 12 titles of accepted and submitted papers, news, a
few short articles, 2 conference announcements, much more. The first
issue is available in
I have more experience with reactive depressive PTSD-style conditions than
you do, Bruce (both professionally; personally); so i can assure you that
- under the specific circumstances of Gargarin's last year - the suicide
hypothesis is very plausible indeed... commonly, there are significant
Here's a grim question for all of you...
what happens in 2005 (or somesuch year) when a flying piece of space debris,
a loose wrench from an old repair job, a rocket stage, or any other of the
1000s of pieces of space junk floating around up there impacts with the ISS?
The more activity up
In a message dated 1/14/2001 2:37:27 PM Alaskan Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Please note that clinically, suicide doesn't require you to
premediate an action: noone is suggesting that Gagarin jumped onto the
plane
not intending to get out in one piece; only that his
