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Topic: Vostok... I didn't know that !
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music_space
Member Posts: 1179
From: Canada
Registered: Jul 2001
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posted 11-01-2002 02:15 AM
   
In Mark Wade's http://www.astronautix.com/flights/vostok1.htm, it is mentionned that Gagarin's Vostok 1 reentry capsule was still attached to the booster by a cable bundle at retrofire, and that the joined pair went through "wild girations" before the bundle burned out...Is this the Russian version of Glenn's reentry scare? ------------------
François Guay
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posted 11-02-2002 10:42 AM
This account of Gagarin's re-entry problem is more or less correct, although the spherical descent module remained attached to Vostok 1's rear equipment module by a cable bundle, not to the booster rocket. There is a good account of the problem in "Starman: The Truth Behind the Legend of Yuri Gagarin" by Jamie Doran and Piers Bizony. |
music_space
Member Posts: 1179
From: Canada
Registered: Jul 2001
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posted 11-03-2002 03:52 AM
Thanks, Arrow. I did check back on the Astronautics link, and I stand corrected: they dutyfully mention the service module, not the booster. What a story anyways!Thanks for the book reference!
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François Guay
Collector of litterature, notebooks, equipment and memories! | |
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