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Vokshod 1
So was talking with some folks about the Soyuz leak and someone joked about
finding who made the hole and sending him to Siberia or something like that. I joked, "No, it'll be more like, 'Congrats Comrade, you've just earned a seat on the next Soyuz flight'" This was invoked by a memory of Vokshod 1. I knew it was a ballsy flight, basically a Vostok without the ejection seat, 3 seats, and no space suits. But reading up at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voskhod_1 I came across a detail I had not heard before (or had missed). There was NO launch escape system during the first 3 minutes of the flight. I guess the shuttle wasn't the first. Interesting. |
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