Lost in Space
August 1st 2010 04:42
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It is the height of the Cold War the Russians and the Americans are forging ahead in the race for space supremacy.
History says that the first astronaut to circle the earth was a Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin in the fight dated April 12 1961.
The flight lasted only 108 minutes. At the highest point, Gagarin was about 327 kilometers above Earth.
Colonel Yuri Gagarin
He returned to Earth and landed safely in a Russian field.
Colonel Yuri Gagarin died on March 27, 1968 from a plane crash, he was in training for a second mission in space.
In May 1961 two Italian brothers intercepted a radio transmission, at this point the Soviets have launched a satellite.
Earlier that day the brothers had erected an antenna on top of their apartment. The brothers finished setting up, grabbed their head-sets, tuned their portable receivers, and proceeded to record the ensuing conversation between the Russian cosmonaut and mission control.
Here is a transcript of the alleged transmission
“Come in… come in… come in… Listen! Come in! Talk to me! I am hot! I am hot! Come in! What? Forty-five? What? Fifty? Yes. Yes, yes, breathing. Oxygen, oxygen… I am hot. Forty-one. Yes, I feel hot. I feel hot, it’s all… it’s all hot. I can see a flame! I can see a flame! I can see a flame! Thirty-two… thirty-two. Am I going to crash? Yes, yes I feel hot… I am listening, I feel hot, I will re-enter. I’m hot!”
Nothing more from the space craft was heard the signal went dead.
There was always a possibility that tragedy would occur as it did later in 1967 Apollo mission tragedy struck, when the crew of an Apollo training mission were killed in a fire inside the Apollo space module.
1971 Three Russian cosmonauts were been found dead in their space capsule just after they had landed. The cause was later stated as oxygen failure on re-entry into the atmosphere.
Although the American space disasters were well documented little is known on early Russian space mishaps.
There are those who believe that in the outer vast blackness of space, about nine billion miles from the Sun, the first human is about to cross the boundary of our Solar System into interstellar space.
His body lost in space in a perfectly preserved condition, frozen at –270 degrees C (–454ºF); his tiny capsule has been drifting away from the Earth at 18,000 mph (29,000km/h) for the past 45 years. He is the original lost cosmonaut, whose rocket went up and, instead of a safe return was sent to oblivion.
Did this mystery transmission in 1961 occur ? The alleged 1961 Soviet space incident was never substantiated.
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Comment by S.L.
The Political Brief
Yuri Gagarin was always one of my heroes, willing to take such a risk (John Glenn was a hero as well). You didn't mention it, but the plane crash that killed him happened because he took the aircraft down away from a village. He could have parachuted to safety, but saved the village instead.
Was the story about the transmission true? I wonder what language the "cosmonaut" was speaking?
Comment by CarlCan
Astroearth
Unfortunately The U.S. space program is close to non –existent, where has all the pioneer spirit gone?
Regarding the conversation the Italian brothers recorded in 1961 was in Russian and translated.
Comment by S.L.
The Political Brief
Our space program is so important, CarlCan, but right now it's being terribly mismanaged and should be taken out of the hands of government so private funding can continue to advance knowledge minus all the political trash.
I was curious about the language. Thanks for setting me straight. It is creepily reminiscent of the old Buck Rogers story about an astronaut surviving such a trip...