He went up there knowing he was likely going to die because of the build problems with the early Soyuz capsules.
Soyuz 1 engineers reported 203 design faults to party leaders, but their concerns “were overruled by political pressures for a series of space feats to mark the anniversary of Lenin’s birthday”.
horn_e4_beaver@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
That reminds me about Vladimir_Komarov on Soyuz_1.
He went up there knowing he was likely going to die because of the build problems with the early Soyuz capsules.
andros_rex@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This is why I 100% believe in the “lost cosmonaut” theories.
Even stuff like probes for Venus they kept absolutely secret if they failed - and those didn’t kill people!