re: #181 SanFranciscoZionist
Apparently the Sovs had some space missions that didn’t go as well.
Aiyah.
Here’s one (Spoiler alert: link contains open casket photograph, not everyone’s cup of tea):
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.”