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"Stop SPAM" wrote in message ... Do you have a cite for the article, please? No, I don't. It was a few years ago and I don't remember the source. As I recall, there was an Italian physician who was a space buff and monitored satellite transmissions. He claimed he heard a human heartbeat aboard. The story had it that the Russians had a problem bringing the craft down at the appointed time, and when they corrected the problem it was out of position for a landing in the USSR. Before it was again in a suitable position the cosmonaut died. This was supposedly the first man in space. The second flight was flown by the son of a famous Russian aero designer, I do not recall which. More problems in the return from orbit left him very severely injured. Then came Yuri Gagarin, his flight went according to plan and it was announced as the first human spaceflight afterward. I'm not saying it happened this way, of course, but it is plausible. After all, the Russians didn't announce their flights beforehand, and there's no reason to keep them secret if you intend to announce your failures anyway. |
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On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Steven P. McNicoll wrote:
"Stop SPAM" wrote in message ... Do you have a cite for the article, please? No, I don't. It was a few years ago and I don't remember the source. The "Phantom Cosmonauts/Astronauts", so-called. Discussed, and largely explained/debunked, he http://www.astronautix.com/astrogrp/phanauts.htm The Judica-Cordiglia brothers (the Italians in question) have a website devoted to them he http://www.lostcosmonauts.com/ .... and are debunked fairly convincingly he http://www.svengrahn.pp.se/trackind/Torre/TorreB.html Interesting stuff, anyway, even if it is mostly nonsense. The Soviets *did* hide a lot of stuff away from public scrutiny in the early days. (NASA probably wished it could do the same thing, some days early in the space race!) Brian As I recall, there was an Italian physician who was a space buff and monitored satellite transmissions. He claimed he heard a human heartbeat aboard. The story had it that the Russians had a problem bringing the craft down at the appointed time, and when they corrected the problem it was out of position for a landing in the USSR. Before it was again in a suitable position the cosmonaut died. This was supposedly the first man in space. The second flight was flown by the son of a famous Russian aero designer, I do not recall which. More problems in the return from orbit left him very severely injured. Then came Yuri Gagarin, his flight went according to plan and it was announced as the first human spaceflight afterward. I'm not saying it happened this way, of course, but it is plausible. After all, the Russians didn't announce their flights beforehand, and there's no reason to keep them secret if you intend to announce your failures anyway. |
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"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message
news The second flight was flown by the son of a famous Russian aero designer, I do not recall which. More problems in the return from orbit left him very severely injured. Vladimir Ilyushin. The story does that the craft was only supposed to make one orbit before re-entry. Soemthing went wrong and he ended up doing three orbits before landing in China. The "story" was that he was badly injured and spent months in a Chinese hospital, the craft having come down in China. The unofficial (though it's all unofficial) story was that he wasn't badly injured at all. Russian/Chinese relations weren't the best at the time and it's said he spent the months (6 months? More?) in a Chinese prison. Then came Yuri Gagarin, his flight went according to plan and it was announced as the first human spaceflight afterward. I'm not saying it happened this way, of course, but it is plausible. After all, the Russians didn't announce their flights beforehand, and there's no reason to keep them secret if you intend to announce your failures anyway. Paul |
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, "Neil Gerace" wrote: "Jim Atkins" wrote in message ... SS1 landed first- WK did a flyby and a nice break over the runway before landing about 10 minutes later. Any report of this flight on the net? Only from every newspaper on the planet with a web site. and, what kind of aircraft is the White Knight? It's a Rutan "White Knight", I guess. A one of a kind, developed specially for this purpose. Presumably it benefitted from earlier experience with Proteus, though it is configured entirely differently. It was a great event to see, even if I had to take 12 hour flight across the Pacific and back -- and sleep in the XCOR hangar -- in order to be there. -- Bruce |
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