[FPSPACE] Komorov and space urban legends

[Vojko Kogej]

He was not KomOrov. He was KomArov!

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> 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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