Feoktistov dead

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8373161.stm

--
Gordon Davie
Edinburgh, Scotland

"Slipped the surly bonds of Earth...to touch the face of God."

GordonD wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8373161.stm


I'm still trying to get the straight story on him and Voskhod 1; in one
version he wants to fly it, as he helped design it.
In the other, he is convinced that Korolev hates him and Korolev forces
him into flying it as he hopes it will fail and kill him.

Pat

Pat Flannery writes:

I'm still trying to get the straight story on him and Voskhod 1; in one
version he wants to fly it, as he helped design it.
In the other, he is convinced that Korolev hates him and Korolev forces him
into flying it as he hopes it will fail and kill him.

I rest my case about Pat authoring a book...

:-)

Dave

Pat Flannery wrote:
GordonD wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8373161.stm


I'm still trying to get the straight story on him and Voskhod 1; in one
version he wants to fly it, as he helped design it.
In the other, he is convinced that Korolev hates him and Korolev forces
him into flying it as he hopes it will fail and kill him.

Pat

In Collins' book, he was nicknamed "Feo the Fink" for managing to avoid
the copious amounts of Vodka shots that were being consumed by Collins,
Young and another Russian Cosmonaut at the Paris Air Show one year.

However it really went down, he certainly was a brave soul for having
designed one of the most dangerous missions ever attempted and then
personally flying in it. Must have been miserable. Three guys in what
was basically a stripped Vostok would have been like three guys in a MG
Midget. Of course the lack of space suits would have helped, but
certainly heightened the terror!

forget it wrote:

However it really went down, he certainly was a brave soul for having
designed one of the most dangerous missions ever attempted and then
personally flying in it. Must have been miserable. Three guys in what
was basically a stripped Vostok would have been like three guys in a MG
Midget. Of course the lack of space suits would have helped, but
certainly heightened the terror!

Probably a pretty hard landing also, even with the solid-fuel landing
rockets on the base of the chute (or chutes; one source says it used two
landing parachutes).
Although ejection was right out in case of a emergency and there was no
escape tower, the book "Korolev" states that escape was only impossible
during around 30 seconds of the ascent, so they must have had some way
of jettisoning the launch shroud and separating the reentry sphere from
the booster on the way up if there was an emergency.

Pat