Starman

[David Morris]

It's hard to parse the powers at play in this historical event.  The
US-Soviet space-colonization race was never (still not yet,  China is
catching up.) real, but the rivalry was.  The fact that Soviets didn't
(still don't) have anything like a free press allowed them carte-blanche
(except I'm sure the cosmonauts knew).  Russia government is an ugly
place...

On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 10:41 PM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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