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...explanation for the deaths: a mechanical or structural failure aboard Soyuz. Because the cosmonauts were not in protective pressure suits at the time of the descent, they could have died from any number of causes-excessive heat, carbon dioxide fumes from a small fire, a nitrogen leak from the spacecraft's atmosphere system, or even a rapid drop in cabin pressure. Such theories got support from some unconfirmed reports that all radio transmissions-not only voice but also telemetry signals-stopped at the end of the braking maneuver. In fact, most speculation centered on a failure in the oxygen...
...week's end London's Evening News reported that Russian scientists attending the state funeral had blamed the tragedy on the cosmonauts' failure "to seal the hatch of their spacecraft properly." The Evening News' Moscow correspondent, Victor Louis (a Soviet citizen often suspected of being a Russian agent), wrote that "human error and mechanical failure between them caused creeping depressurization in the spacemen's nine-foot cabin and deprived the astronauts of life-supporting oxygen on the final phase of their journey." During the turbulent re-entry of Soyuz, Louis said, the spacecraft...
...came at a time when the Russians seemed to be overtaking the U.S. in space-a remarkable comeback after they abandoned the race to land the first man on the moon. Still, the comeback was not entirely without its price. After the crash that killed Cosmonaut Komarov, the Soyuz spacecraft made no manned flights for 18 months while its faulty systems were overhauled. Although three manned Soyuz ships were fired off in rapid succession in 1969, the Soviets failed to make good on hints that the ships would dock and set up a rudimentary space station. In April, the Soviets...
...Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov died in 1967 when Soyuz 1 crashed to earth after its descent-parachute shrouds tangled at the end of a 17-orbit mission. Only three months earlier, Astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaftee were killed when a flash fire engulfed their Apollo 1 spacecraft during a simulated launch at Cape Kennedy...
Died. Lieut. Colonel Georgy Dobrovolsky, 43, Vladislav Volkov, 35, and Viktor Patsayev, 38, crew of the Soyuz 11 Soviet spacecraft (see SCIENCE...