[FPSPACE] Komarov story from "Star Man" pervades Internet

[Peter Pesavento]

Jim O,

Yes, I am aware of this story.

I used this article by Milkus in my article on Vladimir Komarov that was
published in Spaceflight back in August 2003.  

I believe that my article was the first time that major excerpts of that
article that appeared in Mosk. Pravda were presented in English.

Here is the bibliographic citation of that second part of the two-part
serial of mine:



The many deaths of Vladimir Komarov. (Part 2.)  Spaceflight 45(8):337-344,
2003.


Peter



-----Original Message-----
From: James E Oberg [mailto:jameseoberg at comcast.net] 
Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2011 9:22 PM
To: Asif Siddiqi; Peter Pesavento
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Subject: Re: [FPSPACE] Komarov story from "Star Man" pervades Internet

Try this story:

Комаров заменил Гагарина в кресле разбившегося <Союза-1>? --   Аккурат
накануне празднования 50-летия первого полета человека в космос в
Великобритании выходит книга, под завязку набитая враньем про советскую
пилотируемую программу



   Александр МИЛКУС,

Фото из книги <Звездный человек: правда, которая стоит за легендой о Юрии
Гагарине>. -



31.03.2011    http://nnov.kp.ru/daily/25661.3/822807/




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Asif Siddiqi" <siddiqi at fordham.edu>
To: "Peter Pesavento" <pjp961 at svol.net>
Cc: <fpspace at friends-partners.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2011 12:45 PM
Subject: Re: [FPSPACE] Komarov story from "Star Man" pervades Internet


> Dear Peter,
>
>> --Complete air-to-ground, and ground-to-air is only one aspect (although,
>> like I have previously reported back in 2003, some of this trasnscript
>> was
>> indeed released in the Russian press).
>
> These are actually available if you go to RGANTD and not that difficult to
> obtain. If you are that interested in them, you can actually get access to
> everything that was said between ground and orbit during the mission.
>
>> And another thing: Most Russian histories are not up to Western standard.
>> This is known, and acknowledged.
>
> I'm not sure what you mean. Could you explain this point?
>
>> I would prefer the Russians to tell this story.  But when they have not,
>> and
>> continue to refuse to, others will.
>
> In fact, there are quite good accounts of the Soyuz-1 mission available in
> Russian. For sure, there are still a few details of the mission that
> remain unknown, but I can't imagine that anything that anyone could find
> right now would *substantively* change our understanding of the mission:
>
> -- that the 7K-OK vehicle was not sufficiently debugged
> -- that Komarov, Gagarin, etc. were aware of this
> -- that despite misgivings about the vehicle, management insisted on
> carrying on the mission
> -- that there were several different systems failures during flight
> -- that despite these failures, Komarov performed admirably to return the
> vehicle
> -- that failures in the parachute system ultimately killed him
> -- and that TsKBEM and other organizations carried out extensive
> investigations to preclude a similar accident from happening again.
>
> Asif
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