Posted on 12/06/2014 5:59:24 PM PST by WhiskeyX
Red Space: The Secret Russian Space Program. This four part documentary uses photos, videos, and interviews to piece together the turbulent Russian Space program. In a race with the U.S. to control space and reach the moon the program achieved many successes and many setbacks. The two superpowers of that era pushed each other to win the space race.
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Space is dangerous. More so if you are a socialist.
/johnny
/johnny
I understand that their first female cosmonaut who went into orbit and died during re-entry:
People intercepted her last transmission and she was SCREAMING.
It was hushed up.
It’s my understanding that their very first attempt put too much thrust behind the cosmonaut and actually propelled him out of Earth orbit. It’s entirely possible that a dead cosmonaut may be farther outside our solar system than Voyager is.
Putin is feeding them into the fire.
It blowed up real good
That was called “partial credit” in engineering classes...
Same happened in the first shuttle disaster. They weren’t all killed when the fuel tank exploded. One of the women on board was screaming all the way down to impact in the ocean.
I heard from a NASA engineer that was on the Challenger investigation that all of the shuttle crew were alive until impact with the ocean. It was noted that the emergency oxygen supplies on their seats were manually switched on. When the forward cabin section of the shuttle impacted the ocean, the crew were subjected to decelerations in excess of 100 g’s which was fatal. Then the water cavity created by the impact collapsed and smashed the cabin flat. At the time, I was working at Rocketdyne, the company that made the SSME’s (space shuttle main engines). The Challenger’s SSME’s were working fine until the Shuttle broke up.
Their first female cosmonaut is still alive. That "recording" is a fake. Check YouTube and all the comments from Russians and linguists who exposed it as an Italian woman reading Russian lines.
Um, yeah, according to the Weekly World News in 1991 - a complete hoax.
Sorry gaigin, it is a total fake.
The first cosmonaut who did die on the way down and recorded was Vladimir Komarov. He did scream, until the ionization ended his pleas. The man was very brave as he knew before launch the capsule and its systems would fail - he knew he would die.
His motive was simply that, since the Kremlin had ordered it to be launched and that it would fail - killing whomever rode it - it was far better for the country that he, Vladimir Komarov, die than to lose Yuri Gagarin who was the first choice.
We called the first Russian woman in space: Petitza - or Little Bird. She survived and may still be alive today.
I was there for these early days of the Soviet space program, recording and translating.
Two YouTube links that do, with fair accuracy, cover that time and place:
Secrets of the Soviet Space Program
Just checked before posting is now blocked by the BBC Worldwide and unavailable on YouTube
Red Star In Orbit- The Dark Side of the Moon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iE25sG2ELUk
More links to the old Soviet space Program from BBC Worldwide for those interested:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Soviet+space+program
The lunar lander's hatch was open and a bronze plaque bearing names and dates in Cyrillic had been thrown hastily onto the moon's surface.The Americans paused to express their admiration for the Russian pilot who must have known he was on a suicide mission.
Considering the Soviet space program, this plot wasn't so far-fetched.
You have to careful with Snopes. It is typically written in a misleading way.
The “transcript” is debunked. That doesn’t equate to a “complete hoax”
My sister speaks fluent Russian and lived in St. Pete for 8 years. She laughed when she heard the "screaming Russian cosmonaut" and said it was a fake.
the “screaming Russian cosmonaut” I have never heard of before.
There is, however. a persistent (although much denied) account of a Russian cosmonaut who was stranded in orbit shouting for help until his oxygen ran out. That one I heard from someone years ago who was in a position to be “in the know.”
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