[FPSPACE] Komorov and space urban legends

[JamesOberg@aol.com]

The flight was a bitch -- but the thing that killed him was unforeseeable, 
because it was a flaw inside the parahute compartment, as we now know thanks 
to many contributors to this group.

Stories of his wife talking to him, and Kosygin talking to him, are not 
worthy of belief, IMHO. I've talked with a guy ("Winslow Peck" was his 
pseudonym) who says he was assigned to a Turkish listening post AFTER the 
event and heard about it from buddies, but I don't believe his story because 
of other features of his claims (like the claim that the NSA monitored two 
guys getting blown up on the launch pad about 1965). I've also talked 
(mid-1990s) with Russians who were at Mission Control (Yevpatoriya), and we 
were drunk enough to tell each other the truth, but not too drunk that I 
forgot what they told me. "Devil machine, everything I touch doesn't work", 
is one radio message, but no tearful last wishes from loved ones or national 
leaders.