[FPSPACE] Komorov and space urban legends

[Larry Klaes]

How much would Komarov have verbally griped at Mission
Control before he so annoyed his bosses that if he had
survived the Soyuz 1 mission they would never allow him
to fly in space again?  Witness what happened on Apollo 7
after Wally Schirra told off Houston.

Since Komarov obviously did not know he was going to die,
at least while in orbit, how well would it have been for
him career-wise to complain about spacecraft problems
beyond the norm?

Larry


At 05:39 PM 11/13/2000 EST, JamesOberg@aol.com wrote:

>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. 
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