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...first test rocket, called Semyorka (Number 7) exploded. Khrushchev reveals that in one such incident in October 1960, Mikhail Yangel, a colleague of Korolyov's, survived only because he stepped into a special insulated smoking room to have a cigarette. Dozens of other witnesses, including Marshal Mitrofan Nedelin, then commander in chief of Soviet missile forces, were burned to death. Despite these early failures, Khrushchev notes that "thanks to Comrade Korolyov and his associates, we now had a rocket that could carry a nuclear warhead." The Semyorka, Khrushchev adds, paved the Soviet road into outer space...
...that the capsule had failed to separate from its rocket, roasting the astronaut alive. By Ghali's account (TIME, Dec. 19), it was this failure, not the "airplane accident" reported by Moscow, that accounted for the death last October of Soviet Missile Chief Marshal Mitrofan Nedelin: when Khrushchev returned from New York, he berated Nedelin so severely that the marshal committed suicide...
...expectations were never fulfilled. Then on Oct. 25 came a curiously noncommittal announcement that Khrushchev's hand-picked chief of Soviet Missile Forces. Marshal Mitrofan I. Nedelin, had died in an "airplane accident." Last week two reports from Europe offered different versions of what had really happened. ^ The first report, sent from Switzerland by the Chicago Daily News's veteran correspondent Paul Ghali and attributed to "foreign diplomats in Bern," said the Russians had actually rocketed a manned capsule into space sometime in early October. "But the Russian scientists on the ground were unable to separate the container...
Died. Marshal Mitrofan Ivanovich Nedelin, 57, handsome, athletic professional soldier ("a gunner, that's all") and chief of the Soviet Rocket Command; in a plane crash while on an undisclosed mission. A much-decorated Hero of the Soviet Union, a deputy Defense Minister and alternate member of the Communist Party Central Committee. Nedelin defended Moscow's western front during the German attack of 1941, later in the war shifted to the Ukraine (where he first gained favor with Khrushchev) and rose swiftly but anonymously through the ranks of artillerymen until Khrushchev casually revealed his top spot last...
...Nedelin, 57, was virtually unknown in the West-except to other general staffs-until a month ago, when Khrushchev, in an offhand remark at the Czech embassy, revealed that the marshal had been given command of Russia's brand new rocket force. A member of a favored branch (Stalin once called artillery "the God of war"), Nedelin became adept in World War II at Stalin's vaunted "artillery offensives," massing 300 pieces or more for each kilometer of front. His rise to favor with Nikita apparently began when both men were serving in the Ukraine during...