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- From: packer@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov (Charles Packer)
- Subject: Soviet space disaster?
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- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 11:17:00 GMT
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- Somebody told me recently that they had read that the
- former Soviet Union had suffered a space disaster in which
- they had to leave one of their cosmonauts in orbit to die
- because they couldn't rescue him. My informant said that
- his information came from reading newspaper accounts of
- formerly secret material that was made public in the last
- couple of years during the unravelling of the Soviet system
- and the subsequent increase in openness of discussion and
- publication in Russia.
-
- I don't recall seeing anything about this. I would expect
- that it would have been given major coverage in the West
- and would have come to my attention. Also, I can't recall
- a story to this effect any time in the past thirty years,
- though my memory might be hazy.
-
- Can anybody shed light on whether this event did happen?
-