NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #31/NN_1992_31.iso/spool/soc/history/10481

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From: [e-mail] (Patrick Chester)
Newsgroups: soc.history
Subject: Re: Soviet space disaster?
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Date: 2 Jan 93 21:12:34 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Chris Jones) writes:
]In article <[e-mail]>, packer@amarna (Charles Packer) writes:
]>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?
]

They lost a cosmosphere? :)

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