Andrian Nikolayev Dead?

Unsubstantiated rumor that cosmonaut-3 Nikolayev has died, aged 73.

No confirmation.

On Sun, 04 Jul 2004 16:28:41 GMT, "JimO"
wrote:

Unsubstantiated rumor that cosmonaut-3 Nikolayev has died, aged 73.

No confirmation.

....Let us hope it wasn't from overheating in a hot tub like Titov.

OM

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On or about Sun, 04 Jul 2004 12:27:38 -0500, OM om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_researc h_facility.org made the sensational claim that:
On Sun, 04 Jul 2004 16:28:41 GMT, "JimO"
wrote:

Unsubstantiated rumor that cosmonaut-3 Nikolayev has died, aged 73.

No confirmation.

...Let us hope it wasn't from overheating in a hot tub like Titov.

At least not alone, natch.
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On 2004-07-04, JimO wrote:
Unsubstantiated rumor that cosmonaut-3 Nikolayev has died, aged 73.

It's been picked up by... hmm.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au...5E1702,00.html

http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?o...168308CED1E962

http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-070404a.html

On further examination, quite a lot of .au papers have it, apparently
the same article.

Source appears to be Interfax, but I don't know who'd confirm it.

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On 4 Jul 2004 19:59:33 GMT, Andrew Gray
wrote:

Source appears to be Interfax, but I don't know who'd confirm it.

....Doesn't Jim have Val Tereshkova's cell phone number? If anyone'd
know, it'd be she.

OM

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"OM" om.org wrote in message
...Doesn't Jim have Val Tereshkova's cell phone number? If anyone'd
know, it'd be she.

She hasn't answered my calls since about, oh, 1978, when she got
me kicked out of a NASA press conference for asking her questions she
didn't want to answer. See RSIO.

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH

OBITUARY : Andrian Nikolayev
----------------------------
Filed: 05/07/2004

Andrian Nikolayev, who has died aged 74, broke all previous records for
space travel when his spaceship Vostok III circled the Earth 64 times in
96 hours in August 1962; eight years later he set a new endurance record,
spending 18 days in space in Soyuz 9.

A former lumberjack who trained as a cosmonaut with Yuri Gagarin and
Gherman Titov, his two Soviet forerunners in space, Nikolayev was launched
into orbit from an undisclosed site on August 11 1962 - 18 months after
Gagarin became the first man in space.

Travelling at up to 18,000 miles an hour, Nikolayev circled the Earth
every 88.32 minutes at a distance that varied between 109 and 141 miles.
The Soviet government had broadcast an appeal for the United States to
refrain from high altitude nuclear testing while Nikolayev was aloft; in
reply, the American government promised not to interfere and wished him a
good flight...../snip/


....A year later she gave birth to a healthy girl, Elena, supposedly
disposing of concern that there could be radiation damage to genes in
near-Earth orbit. The Nikolayevs later had a second child, but their
marriage ended in divorce. It was not until long after the collapse of the
Soviet Union that a former medical officer on its space programme said
that their marriage had been an experiment ordered by the Kremlin - who
wanted to discover if their children would be born with deformities - as
part of the Soviet plans to set up a space colony.

Andrian Grigoryevich Nikolayev, the son of a collective farmer, was born
on September 5 1929, on the Volga at Shorsheli, in Turkic-speaking
Chuvashkaya, to the east of Moscow. After visiting an airfield for the
first time at the age of eight, Andrian climbed to the top of a tall tree,
whereupon villagers had to plead with him not to carry out his plan to fly
down.

He trained as a forester and worked as a lumberjack before being drafted
into the Soviet Army in 1950. He soon joined Komsomolo, the Communist
Party youth organisation, and began training as an air force pilot.

At flying school, Nikolayev demonstrated his skill and bravery when on one
occasion he crash-landed a jet plane instead of parachuting to safety. In
1959, five years after he qualified, his superiors put his name on the
cosmonaut list. He acted as understudy when Titov became the second
Russian in space in August 1961; Titov later described Nikolayev as "the
embodiment of composure . . . a man of iron endurance and courageous
determination".

Nikolayev returned to space in 1970 for his second and final mission on
board the Soyuz 9 spacecraft. The 17 days and 16 hours that he and his
flight engineer Vitali Sevastyanov spent in orbit was almost four days
more than the American spacecraft Gemini 7, the previous endurance
record-holder, in 1965. Again Nikolayev was a Hero of the Soviet Union.

Nikolayev suffered a heart attack on Saturday at Cheboksary, the capital
of his native Chuvash Autonomous Republic, where he was judging the
All-Russian rural sport games.


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Martin Postranecky wrote:

Andrian Nikolayev, who has died aged 74, broke all previous records for
space travel when his spaceship Vostok III circled the Earth 64 times in
96 hours in August 1962; eight years later he set a new endurance record,
spending 18 days in space in Soyuz 9.

A former lumberjack who trained as a cosmonaut with Yuri Gagarin and
Gherman Titov,

"I'm a lumberjack, and I'm okay.
I circled the Earth for four nights and days."

Red Army Band: "Comrade Nikolayev's a lumberjack, and he's okay;
He piloted a Vostok for four nights and days...."

"I wore a helmet and a pressure suit.
I sat in an ejection seat.
I ate dehydrated fruit.
And tubes full of minced meat."

R.A.B: "The comrade wore a pressure suit, and ate his tubes of meat.
He feasted upon dehydrated fruit, and farted in his ejection seat.
He knew that Soviet space food is the best, it simply can't be beat.
What he didn't know is that the the tubes contained horse meat."

"Then I came back to Earth, and punched out of the sphere.
I swung beneath my parachute, but I did not know fear.
I float down to earth gently, the same way Gagarin did.
Gagarin ejected too...but the government kept it hid."

R.A.B. "He came back down earth, just like a skydiver.
The way he says Gagarin did, but he must be a liar.
He's off to Siberia for a while now, where some timber needs felling.
Always mind your P's and Q's and don't go state secrets telling."

Pat

Thanks, Martin.

They only had one kid, six months after they got married. Some
people confused her given name and her nickname as referring to different
girls.

Nikolayev was reputedly the KGB informant among the cosmonauts,
keeping them all on the 'straight and narrow'.



"Martin Postranecky" wrote in
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH

OBITUARY : Andrian Nikolayev
----------------------------
Filed: 05/07/2004

In article ,
Martin Postranecky wrote:

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH

OBITUARY : Andrian Nikolayev
----------------------------
Filed: 05/07/2004

Andrian Nikolayev, who has died aged 74, broke all previous records for
space travel when his spaceship Vostok III circled the Earth 64 times in
96 hours in August 1962; eight years later he set a new endurance record,
spending 18 days in space in Soyuz 9.

A former lumberjack who trained as a cosmonaut with Yuri Gagarin and
Gherman Titov, his two Soviet forerunners in space, Nikolayev was launched
into orbit from an undisclosed site on August 11 1962 - 18 months after
Gagarin became the first man in space...

Wow. A former lumberjack. What do you think the chance of that happening
_here_ would be?

He was a lumberjack, and he was OK.

He chopped down trees,
he at some borscht,
he climbed aboard Vostok 3...

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