Cosmonaut Crashed Into Earth ‘Crying In Rage’ : Krulwich Wonders : NPR
History • March 2011 • Views: 744
NPR reviews a book which examines the death of Russian cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov in 1967
The space vehicle is shoddily constructed, running dangerously low on fuel; its parachutes — though no one knows this — won’t work and the cosmonaut, Vladimir Komarov, is about to, literally, crash full speed into Earth, his body turning molten on impact. As he heads to his doom, U.S. listening posts in Turkey hear him crying in rage, “cursing the people who had put him inside a botched spaceship.”