Vasyutin feud?

[Gordon Davie]

There's a programme showing on the Discovery channel (UK version) at the
moment about the psychological effects of space flight. They've just
described how during the Soyuz T-14 mission Vladimir Vasyutin had an
argument with Alexander Volkov which resulted in the two men not speaking to
each other for the remainder of the flight. I knew Vasyutin had suffered a
nervous breakdown which caused the mission to be terminated early but the
feud scenario is a new one on me. Is there any other evidence of this?

They've also just now said that Soyuz 21 was cut short because Zholobov
claimed that his mission commander (Volnyov) was planning to kill him!

I'm more than a little sceptical because earlier on in the programme they
gave the launch date of Sputnik 1 as 5th October 1957, and showed an
interview with Gherman Titov in which they said he'd flown Vostok *1*.

--
Gordon Davie
Edinburgh, Scotland

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

[Iain Young]

In article >, Gordon Davie wrote:

> I'm more than a little sceptical because earlier on in the programme they
> gave the launch date of Sputnik 1 as 5th October 1957, and showed an
> interview with Gherman Titov in which they said he'd flown Vostok *1*.

Yeah, that made me sit up and do a double take. Did you also note
the bit when they were talking about the Lunar Landing, but showed
a much smaller rocket with four boosters ?


Iain

[Chris Jones]

"Gordon Davie" > writes:

[...]

> and showed an
> interview with Gherman Titov in which they said he'd flown Vostok *1*.

Here's a bit of trivia (or anal-retentive nitpicking if you like): there
was no Vostok 1. It was announced as Vostok (with no number). Titov's
flight was called Vostok 2. (Similarly, the first Voskhod was called
simply Voskhod, with the next flight called Voskhod 2. When Komarov was
launched on the first Soyuz, it *was* called Soyuz 1, which made people
who follow these things expect an immediate Soyuz 2, which was the plan,
derailed because of the problems on Soyuz 1.)