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[i]The article published in Quest is exactly the same as the stand-alone publication listed on Amazon. After I wrote the article for Quest, Scott Sacknoff, the publisher for Quest, approached me and asked me if I would object to publishing the article as a stand-alone publication for sale, with the proceeds going to charity. I had no objection and he put the whole thing together. I really had nothing to do with it (although I am very grateful to Scott for giving it wider dissemination). I actually haven’t even seen it yet! As far as the provenance of the document (the so-called “on board journal’), it was from the private collection of Nikolai Kamanin, but as I note in the article in Quest, the copy was signed by Vladimir Pravetskii of the USSR Ministry of Health responsible for biomedical support. My guess is that Pravetskii gave Kamanin a copy which he kept in his private collection. It was auctioned for sale in May 2018 at Heritage Auctions. And finally, there are indeed a few new revelations in the article, including details of air-to-ground communications unknown before, details of the single firing of the main engine (which we did not know about before), and the fact that there were three attempts at reentry, not two. Additionally, many other minor errors are corrected in the version published in Quest.[/i]
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