Episode 2 of Space disasters.
Dea*h also awaited Yuri Gagarin: he was the reserve pilot for the Komarov mission, and sometime later, on March 27, 1968, he crashed aboard a MiG-15.
In the book Red Star in Orbit, Oberg writes that on January 22, 1969, other Soviet cosmonauts risked perishing in a very unusual way… in an attack on Brezhnev, during a parade. “As the cars slowly entered the Kremlin, a young lieutenant named Viktor Ilyin drew two pistols and fired on one of the cars. His target was Brezhnev, but the car he hit was full of cosmonauts. "
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To save them from the eight shots fired was certainly the training to react quickly. "The driver was hit several times and died shortly after; in the back seat, Nikolayev, Beregovoy and Leonov pushed Valentina Tereshkova down and shielded her as they were showered with broken glass. Ilyin, meanwhile, had been grabbed by the guards. The ceremony proceeded as if nothing had happened ”. According to the Moscow News, Ilyin was questioned by Brezhnev’s successor himself, the then head of the KGB Andropov, who sent him to a psychiatric clinic for 20 years.
Just a few days earlier, on January 18, the Soyuz 5 with astronaut Boris Volynov on board had risked destruction while re-entering the atmosphere. "Volynov", Oberg said in 2002, quoting an article in Komsomolskaya Pravda in 1998, "was returning to Earth alone after the space rendezvous with Soyuz 4, to which he had transferred two other men. But something went wrong: the Command Module was unable to separate completely from the Descent Module ".
“It took Mission Control only a few moments to realize that nothing could be done. The capsule’s heat shield was at the base of the Descent Module, which was now blocked by the massive Command Module. Without the shield, a temperature of 5000 degrees would have incinerated the capsule and the pilot ”. According to Komsomolskaya Pravda, “At Mission Control, one of the officers took off his cap, put three rubles in it and passed it to the others. Gradually, he filled himself with money for the poor man’s family. It had already happened on the day of Komarov’s deaxh. Other flight controllers, knowing they were completely helpless, covered their faces with their hands ”.
"As the spacecraft fell back into the atmosphere," Oberg continues, "it spun slowly from one end to the other, wrapping all its parts in a ball of fire. Volynov lost radio contact with the surface. He heard the Service Module’s overheated fuel tanks explode, and as flames engulfed the Descent Module, he saw it fill with smoke. Since he wasn’t wearing a spacesuit, he felt the heat on his skin. Volynov was now convinced he had only a few seconds to live, but he heard a crash, and the module tumbled violently again. Miraculously, it assumed the right orientation, with the shield pointing downwards. Any mechanical failure had prevented the separation of the two modules, the jolts of the return had solved the problem ".
The capsule landed 2000 kilometers from the designated point, and in the impact, although muffled by the snow, Volynov broke several teeth. And he found himself with the reverse problem. Since it was the middle of winter, and it was -38 degrees outside, he was afraid of dying of cold before they found him. Then he went out and set off, spitting blood, until he saw a wisp of smoke and ran into a farmer who helped him.
As far as is known, Volynov is the only man who has ever survived an accident of this kind.
The most serious "official" catastrophe of the Soviet space program occurred on June 30, 1971, when the three cosmonauts aboard the Soyuz 11, which detached from the orbital station Salyut..
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