The story is pretty harrowing and shocking, but I'm more shocked by the fact that his last moments are available for sale as an MP3 on Amazon. WTF?

brigid_fitch: Hender: The story is pretty harrowing and shocking, but I'm more shocked by the fact that his last moments are available for sale as an MP3 on Amazon. WTF?

A taste of the future if NPR gets defunded.

I don't think NPR put it there, but the fact that someone out there did makes me stabby.

Wow.

Why did they have to post a photo of this poor soul's remains?
Couldn't he be afforded a little dignity?

What a sad and infuriating story.

AdolfOliverPanties: A good mortician could have made him more presentable for the viewing.

I lol'd. I'm ashamed of myself.

AdolfOliverPanties: A good mortician could have made him more presentable for the viewing.

Heh, reminds me of my wife's attempt to "dress up" a horribly charred pot roast she once made. She spooned some sort of horrible "sauce" all over it, so it was charred...and soggy. Glad they didn't do that to this poor soul.

O.k.. What the hell is a "chipped heal bone"?

I suppose they meant "heel bone"?

Ground control to Major Komarov, your circuit's dead. Is there something wrong? Can you hear me Major Komarov?

Meanwhile, in the United States, we were told that the astronauts on the Challenger died instantly; and anyone who claimed they were still alive for some time after was ridiculed.

I guess it's only ok to admit 'instant death' is a crock, if the 'knowing you're going to die and not a damn thing you can do about it' happens to somebody else, preferably an enemy.

Typical commie sympathizing from National Socialist Public Radio.

Yeah, thanks for the article subby. I'll be pouring out some vodka for my homey tonight.

Hender: The story is pretty harrowing and shocking, but I'm more shocked by the fact that his last moments are available for sale as an MP3 on Amazon. WTF?

Ghouls.

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AlwaysRightBoy: "I'm not going to make it back from this flight."

He'll die instead of me. We've got to take care of him

Rusyaev asked, Why not refuse? According to the authors, Komarov answered: "If I don't make this flight, they'll send the backup pilot instead." That was Yuri Gagarin. Vladimir Komarov couldn't do that to his friend.


Wow, that's what you call a friend.

/interesting find Subby

That goes way beyond friendship. But yes, I agree with your sentiment; Komarov was a special, and rare, human being.

wow.

Totally thought of this while reading it.

I can't bring myself to listen to the audio. Holy Christ. Can you even imagine? Taking scientific endeavor which could have so broadly expanded our understanding of the universe around us and getting some poor SOB killed for politics is madness.

I think I've got some cosmic dust in my eye.

AdolfOliverPanties: A good mortician could have made him more presentable for the viewing.

Who would you suggest for this job? Madame Tussaud?

I clearly heard him say: These pretzels are making me thirsty

My dad always used to tell me this story of listening into a cosmonaut's last transmission as his craft burned up in orbit -- I always thought he was pulling my leg. He worked in air force intelligence back in the late 1960's and early 1970's. :\

Shadow Blasko: OK ModMins, I try not to biatch too much ..

But MISC?

The man is a damned HERO. Doesn't matter what side his bosses worked for.

The Astronauts and Cosmonauts risked, and many gave all in what was not just a "space race" but the further the achievements of all mankind.

"We come in peace, for all Mankind"



As the story states, he went, believing he would die, so as to prevent that fate from befalling another.

It looks like it says 'came', past tense, from that angle. Wonder why the past tense was chosen, instead of the present? Or is it just the angle?

AdolfOliverPanties: A good mortician could have made him more presentable for the viewing.

A little pancake makeup and he'll look as good as new.

AdolfOliverPanties: A good mortician could have made him more presentable for the viewing.



Federico's got this.

Russians are brave, stoic, and fatalistic. Komorov had balls to choose to die rather than let his friend and the first man in space, hero of the USSR, bite it for no reason othre than some party member toady was afraid to tell his boss bad news.

There are multiple lessons for us all here.

And it's articles like this is why the NPR should get funding from the feds. The ammount that the government supplies is a pee hole in the snow compared to the ammount they waste every day.
Support NPR

/I also assume I will look like this in hell

AlwaysRightBoy: "I'm not going to make it back from this flight."

He'll die instead of me. We've got to take care of him

Rusyaev asked, Why not refuse? According to the authors, Komarov answered: "If I don't make this flight, they'll send the backup pilot instead." That was Yuri Gagarin. Vladimir Komarov couldn't do that to his friend.


Wow, that's what you call a friend.

/interesting find Subby

Well, see, that flight was going to have problems even if it hadn't been for all the other issues surrounding the launch. We don't even have elements on the periodic table of sufficient density to describe just how heavy and pendulous this man's balls were.

Dying to perform your duty to your country can be a heroic thing.
Dying in service to all mankind is pretty much a sure thing.
Dying to spare the life of a friend. I'm not sure we ever had words to adequately describe that.

3 G's: O.k.. What the hell is a "chipped heal bone"?

I suppose they meant "heel bone"?

To hell with that...the remains in the photo look to be far more than that...unless he truly was a giant among men.

WTF is this? Do we get to see Challenger and Columbia astronaut remains in a few decades? Or is that only if the U.S. goes out the way the U.S.S.R. did?
/there aren't public photos of Apollo I crew remains are there?

Nem Wan: WTF is this? Do we get to see Challenger and Columbia astronaut remains in a few decades? Or is that only if the U.S. goes out the way the U.S.S.R. did?
/there aren't public photos of Apollo I crew remains are there?

Do you know what Mission Control said after the Shuttle blew up?

ExperianScaresCthulhu: Meanwhile, in the United States, we were told that the astronauts on the Challenger died instantly; and anyone who claimed they were still alive for some time after was ridiculed.

I guess it's only ok to admit 'instant death' is a crock, if the 'knowing you're going to die and not a damn thing you can do about it' happens to somebody else, preferably an enemy.

WTF are you talking about?

LowbrowDeluxe: AlwaysRightBoy: "I'm not going to make it back from this flight."

He'll die instead of me. We've got to take care of him

Rusyaev asked, Why not refuse? According to the authors, Komarov answered: "If I don't make this flight, they'll send the backup pilot instead." That was Yuri Gagarin. Vladimir Komarov couldn't do that to his friend.


Wow, that's what you call a friend.

/interesting find Subby

Well, see, that flight was going to have problems even if it hadn't been for all the other issues surrounding the launch. We don't even have elements on the periodic table of sufficient density to describe just how heavy and pendulous this man's balls were.

Dying to perform your duty to your country can be a heroic thing.
Dying in service to all mankind is pretty much a sure thing.
Dying to spare the life of a friend. I'm not sure we ever had words to adequately describe that.


Biggus-Brassbalzium?


/followed by biggus dickus no doubt

Very similar to the pressure put on NASA to launch Challenger in January 1986 when so many engineers argued against launching because of frozen "o" rings.

This contingency speech for Apollo 11 is also an interesting find. I wonder what it would be like to have been a stranded Armstrong and Aldrin listening to that. Or would they wait until after the air ran out?

Hender: The story is pretty harrowing and shocking, but I'm more shocked by the fact that his last moments are available for sale as an MP3 on Amazon. WTF?

I can't wait until those youtube auto-tune guys get ahold of this.

dude...

free pro tip: be sure not to kill half of your advance rocketry staff by having them stand too close to a test launch