Starman

[Mark Thibodeau]

Read this a while ago and it's pretty shocking and wrenching.

On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 11:47 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2011/05/02/134597833/cosmonaut-crashed-into-earth-crying-in-rage
>
> The space vehicle is shoddily constructed, running dangerously low on fuel;
> its parachutes — though no one knows this — won't work and the cosmonaut,
> Vladimir Komarov, is about to, literally, crash full speed into Earth, his
> body turning molten on impact. As he heads to his doom, U.S. listening posts
> in Turkey hear him crying in rage, "cursing the people who had put him
> inside a botched spaceship."
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