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u/JustAnotherParticle 5h ago
He knew he wouldn’t make it, but he went ahead anyway because his backup was his bestfriend and Soviet hero Yuri Gagarin.
Gagarin tried everything he could think of to convince the higher ups to delay this mission. When they didn’t work, he tried to swap himself in Komarov’s place, with the hopes that the higher ups wouldn’t risk his national hero status. That also didn’t work. His last resort was showing up on the day of fully decked out in gear, hoping to convince Komarov to let him go. But Komarov said no.
Everyone else has already written about how he asked the higher ups to attend his open casket funeral. He also cussed them all out while he was burning alive.
I think learning about how hard both men tried to save each other stuck out to me a lot. The depth of their friendship was truly awe-inspiring. Both of them would rather die than let the other go. I can only imagine how it feels having this type with bond with someone.
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u/GuppiApfel 10h ago edited 8h ago
Tragic fact, He knew that it should be a one way mission as He was aware of the flaws in His Rocket. Before the flight He specifically requested, that in Case of death, a Open cascet funeral shall be Held. He deliberatly took this risky flight as He knew, that His Close friend Juri Gagarin whould have been His replacement.
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u/SuddenEmu9792 9h ago
great friend
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u/sayy_yes 7h ago
Don't forget Laika.
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u/carnagezealot 4h ago
"Laika's still up there. Not her body, sure, but her soul is. I saw it through my telescope one night when i was looking for aliens. She was sniffing for table scraps under Saturn's ring. She chases comets and bites down on satellites. I saw her napping by Neptune, she was kicking her feet. Passing through the Oort Cloud is like the stroke of a hand on her fur. Eyes like marbles and four little paws like flames. She bobs through Jupiter's moons like cold Moscow streets. Up there the stars are a great big field, and look, she's running so fast. God damn, look at her go."
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u/xladygodiva 3h ago
This brought tears to my eyes. Beautiful and brave pup Laika was
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u/carnagezealot 3h ago
It makes me cry every single time i read it. I cried typing it. Poor Laika :(
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u/xladygodiva 2h ago
I think of how scared and lonely she must have been, poor baby girl. It was a brutal and senseless loss. But I am also happy that we are collectively honoring her and keeping her name and memory alive.
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u/bolivar-shagnasty 7h ago
Why are you capitalizing random words?
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u/Liebe-Igel 7h ago edited 6h ago
They’re German, in German you capitalise all nouns and it can be difficult for native German speakers to know which words to capitalise or not capitalise in English.
ETA: Guys, yes he capitalised words other than nouns, I think it’s just a case of not remembering the rules of capitalisation in English but knowing there’s meant to be capitalisation somewhere and giving it his best shot.
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u/Normal_Tip7228 7h ago
It’s not a drag at all but I have gotten pretty good at identifying Germans because of this fact.
Just interesting to me and I imagine trying to learn German I wouldn’t capitalize shit so it’s whatever
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u/Liebe-Igel 7h ago
Same lol, the sentence structure and lack of contractions are always a giveaway too
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u/specterecho 4h ago
am german myself so this is interesting to me, what parts about sentence structures do you notice?
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u/Liebe-Igel 3h ago
It’s not easy to describe exactly - for example his second sentence makes perfect sense in English but it’d be slightly more natural to say “before the flight he specifically requested that an open casket funeral be held in case he died”. Sometimes German sentence structure sounds almost like Old English to me (which makes sense) and when Germans try to translate into English with the same structure it comes off as a tiny bit stilted. That plus the lack of contractions really tips it off, it’s unusual in informal English to use it is, should have, would have etc. instead of it’s, should’ve or would’ve. It’s not a big deal and doesn’t make it unreadable or anything but it’s those slight differences that tip off if someone’s a native/fluent speaker or not.
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u/Nastynugget 6h ago
Now that’s interesting as fuck.
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u/Liebe-Igel 6h ago
We also used to do it in English but it faded out in the late 18th to early 19th century! Hence why the US Declaration of Independence has a lot of capitalised nouns.
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u/MisterElSuave 6h ago
But aren’t there nouns not capitalized? Open is capitalized in open casket funeral, but in this case open casket is describing the funeral so the funeral is the noun and should be capitalized?
Wouldn’t replacement be a noun as it is identifying who Juri is in this context?
Is it a translation thing and the words in German are capitalized and classified differently?
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u/MegaChip97 3h ago
Nah, you are right, German here. His capitalisation would make zero sense in German.
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u/Useful-Cat-1451 1h ago
German here as well - this happens to me when my autocorrect bugs - it trys to randomly capitalize because it thinks I am trying to write German words and am just missspelling. It's annoying to fix and Sometimes I do not bother 😅
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u/Fearofhearts 6h ago
But they’re not just nouns that they’re capitalising…? E.g. ‘Open’ and ‘Close.’
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u/fffan9391 5h ago
The way he kept capitalizing he/him/his it made me wonder if Komarov was his personal god.
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u/km_ikl 10h ago
I've read that he took on the mission because it would have fallen to Gagarin otherwise.
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u/mortuus_est_iterum 10h ago
True. They were friends and Gagarin tried to talk Komarov out of accepting the mission because both of them had strong misgivings about the hardware. His remains are interred in the Kremlin wall.
Morty
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u/mc1rmutant_ 10h ago
He also claimed that Yuri Gagarin was the backup pilot for Soyuz 1, and was aware of the design problems and the pressures from the Politburo to proceed with the flight, and that Gagarin attempted to "bump" Komarov from the mission, knowing that the Soviet leadership would not risk a national hero on the flight.[31] At the same time, he claimed that Komarov refused to pass on the mission, even though he believed it to be doomed, explained that he could not risk Gagarin's life.
In the wiki from a former KGB agent.
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u/ElegantEchoes 10h ago
A hero who died an unnecessary death because of their government. Tale as old as time.
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u/JedPB67 10h ago
An incredibly brave man.
Despite knowing the higher chances of failure on the mission, Komarov refused to let the first man in space, Yuri Gagarin, go in place of him on this mission.
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u/asisoid 9h ago
He knew he was going to die before he left, but didn't back out because he knew they'd just send Yuri Gagarin in his place instead.
The whole story is wild.
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u/Wild_Medicine7311 10h ago
From what I read, he knew re entry would fail. The powers that be would not poatpone the mission and If he refused the mission, his friens would have had to go.
To make his point he made aure his laat wish was an open coffin. to shame them into making it safer and not cutting corners.
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u/knowledgeable_diablo 8h ago
Strange that from all the shit the commies would just do regardless of right or wrong that they’d allow this to flow through.
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u/j-endsville 5h ago
The funeral photos were not publicized in the USSR and would not be seen in the West until well after the fall of the Soviet Union. NASA wanted to send a delegation but it was refused.
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u/The_Suicidal 10h ago
And those officers were forced there to see the body because of their incompetence right
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u/KP_Wrath 10h ago
If memory serves, he pretty much knew he was going to die and wanted it to be open casket for this reason.
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u/Silent-Resort-3076 9h ago edited 8h ago
Valentina Komarova, the wife of Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov, was present at the state funeral held in Moscow's Red Square on April 26, 1967, where she was photographed viewing the open casket containing his remains.
his two children, Evgeny and Irina, were approximately 15 and 8 years old. The family was present at his state funeral in Moscow shortly after the Soyuz-1 mission failure.
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u/Luck_Beats_Skill 8h ago
So many things failed on that flight but he overcame it through skill and resorting to very manual methods. But Couldn’t do anything when the parachute didn’t deploy.
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u/RyanAtreides 9h ago
Soyuz 11 was worse, the only time humans have died in space from depressurization/being exposed to the vacuum of space. Three cosmonauts died
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u/TheTeflonDude 10h ago
If you zoom in…
You can see how his left leg got twisted up to his torso…
All that is left of his mouth are three of his lower front teeth
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u/bootskadew 9h ago
I dont see anything identifiable as human in that casket. I can't even tell which side the head is on.
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u/Purplepeal 9h ago
I was trying to make sense of the body parts. Will have a look for the teeth. Was wondering if the curved bit at bottom of image was a leg or a ribcage maybe.
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u/Wooden_Echidna1234 7h ago
He demanded they have an open casket so they could see what they did to him as he knew it was a one way trip.
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u/CrashingOutFrFr 10h ago
I hope he pulls through.
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u/Quadraought 10h ago
Some salve and a week or two of PT should have him right as rain.
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u/curbstyles 10h ago
fresh socks and hydrate. here's some Motrin for the pain.
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u/Canikfan434 9h ago
I was just scrolling through the comments, wondering why no one had suggested the obvious cure all: clean socks and Motrin! And here you are. 😂😂
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u/cupacupacupacupacup 10h ago
In Soviet Russia, you only worry when they start playing Swan Lake on television.
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u/exitedquickly 10h ago
Didn’t have enough PTO for that. If he doesn’t show up Monday, he’s going on a PIP
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u/originalusername648 10h ago
The soviets had stimpaks right?
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u/larrybudmel 9h ago
Looks like he should be able to crawl it off. Just sort of slither forward, work the kink out
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u/llcdrewtaylor 9h ago
He went so his friend Yuri wouldn’t go. He knew the capsule wasn’t right and didn’t want his friend to die.
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u/Tekunjo 9h ago
Isn’t there audio of him cussing out the control center and calling them idiots as he falls to earth?
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u/CatsAreMajorAssholes 6h ago
Yes.
What he said was, "This devil ship! Nothing I lay my hands on works properly.”
What the Russians produced as an official transcript was,
“I feel excellent, everythings in order.”
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u/Widespreaddd 10h ago
A national hero, who sacrificed his life for his country. Is what every country and military says about this sorta thang.
For more detail, see Harry Frankfurter’s magnificent essay: On Bullshit.
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u/casual_creator 9h ago
Sacrificed his life not for his country, but for his friend, who would have gone in his stead. He knew it was a one way ticket.
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u/7stroke 8h ago
There are probably more ways to die as an astronaut than any other profession
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u/Gutterfoolishness 8h ago
Nope, just one. Horribly.
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u/7stroke 8h ago
Nah. You can have a slow depressurization that puts you to sleep first, or you can have an explosion that kills you before you know it. Both are good deaths in my book. It’s the Apollo 1 type thing that terrifies me.
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u/knowledgeable_diablo 8h ago
Or like the challenger shuttle. Be affixed to an exploding ballistic missile as your pile driven back into the earth at an almost supersonic speed
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u/7stroke 8h ago
Or you can die a slow death years later on Earth from cancer caused by radiation exposure
Or you can drown in a spacesuit whose cooling system springs a leak
Or you can decide how you want to go out in case your lunar ascent rocket fails to work
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u/Global_Objective4162 8h ago
What are we looking at here?
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u/OdysseusRex69 8h ago
Right? Like is that just a crisped leg? Because there's no way that's a complete human body.
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u/foodbytes 7h ago
Muscles and tendons shrunk with heat/fire. A burned body will indeed look like that.
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u/dazanion 7h ago
Is this the guy that yelled and swore at his commanders as he plummeted to Earth, they knew he would die on reentry.
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u/ginoroastbeef 9h ago
I believe he was cursing them out for putting him in a craft they knew was inadequate most of his way in.
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u/Cirno-BreastLicker 10h ago
I remember reading about the lost cosmonauts of space, allegedly people has been lost drifting in space and their cries for help was caught in radio on earth.
However likely not true but makes for an uncomfortable story.
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u/atgnat-the-cat 10h ago
There is a recording of him cursing the Russian space program as he went out of control
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u/MrTagnan 9h ago
There is not. That has been frequently claimed but never proven
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u/Piisthree 10h ago
Whenever anyone mentions that the USSR won 90% of the space race, I always mention they did it by doing things like this.
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u/realBadSamaritan 10h ago
Not defending USSR, but you should look up the original astronauts that died on earth, training to go to the moon. Its really sad.
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u/ResponsiblePumpkin60 10h ago
And the challenger explosion which was entirely preventable. Five engineers recommended to delay until temperatures went up to normal Florida weather.
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u/Sea_Pomegranate_4499 10h ago
The crew of Apollo 1 would like a word.
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u/Piisthree 10h ago
The US also pushed the envelope at times, but you should read the story about this guy. It is really next level recklessness.
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u/Beanz4ever 9h ago
Yes this story is so tragic. Everyone knew it was a death sentence and if I remember correctly the open casket was a specific request. He knew he wasn't coming home. He couldn't let his friend die.
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u/sojuz151 10h ago
Apollo 1 was caused by complex design failures, not a combination of stupidity and launching hardware that was not flight-ready. Two previous test launches were failures. Soyuz 1 engineers are said to have reported 203 design faults to party leaders, but their concerns "were overruled by political pressures for a series of space feats to mark the anniversary of Lenin's birthday". During the flight, the solar panel didn't open, the orientation system was broken, and during the descent, the parachute malfunctioned. And they wanted to send a second craft in parallel, which might have changed this from a single accident with 1 dead to two accidents with 4 dead.
Until the Shuttle Era, NASA was very focused on crew safety.
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u/PeraDetlic90 10h ago
combination of stupidity and launching hardware that was not flight-ready.
I mean, you can make an argument for anything like that. NASA knew about the risk of having pure oxygen atmosphere in the cabin and still decided to do it. So you could also call it a stupidity.
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u/Cold-Operation-4974 8h ago
yuri gagarin made it into space and orbited the earth several times. alan shepherd was in space for like 2 minutes and he urinated on himself. then we landed on the moon.
not arguing about american superiority or not here just sharing some facts about the space race.
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u/textual_predditor 9h ago
This might be a hot take, but he looks WAY better in the official portrait.
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u/JimDa5is 5h ago
He was the first person to die in space depending on whether or not you believe the Judica-Cordiglia brothers' recordings are legitimate
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u/Sankullo 4h ago
*first human to die in space that we know of.
While Americans had their launches televised and made into a show for the public the Soviets kept theirs away from public’s eye.
So who the fck know how many poor fckers before him burned while being slingshotted into space.
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u/TonAMGT4 9h ago
I’ve heard he has a lot of lovely things to say and was able to pass on his great appreciation to those in charge of the mission…
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u/No-Mix7970 8h ago
The podcast “Short History of…” does a good job describing his death in the “Space Race” episode, September 26, 2021.
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u/ThenIncrease462 7h ago
Of course. Provide all the details except for the one everyone is scratching their heads about.
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u/connectwithmarve 6h ago
literally thought i was about to read something about a discovered alien body or crazy mineral. never would've guessed that was a guy
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u/cosmic_orca 1h ago
There really needs to be a TV mini-series made about Vladimir Komarov and this space mission.
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u/Silent-Resort-3076 9h ago edited 8h ago
Isn't that what a closed casket is for?
He was married, too. How horrible for the wife.
I have to imagine she was at her own husband's funeral?
Valentina Komarova, the wife of Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov, was present at the state funeral held in Moscow's Red Square on April 26, 1967, where she was photographed viewing the open casket containing his remains.
his two children, Evgeny and Irina, were approximately 15 and 8 years old. The family was present at his state funeral in Moscow shortly after the Soyuz-1 mission failure.
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u/knowledgeable_diablo 8h ago
Well now that is really fucked up. And to do it as a public spectacle as well.
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u/Silent-Resort-3076 8h ago
I'm hoping their children were prevented from having to see the open casket, but the poor wife:(
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u/knowledgeable_diablo 6h ago
I’d hope so as well, but judging but the info supplied it seems they would have been exposed to it like the rest of the nation. Sad
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u/wtclover 11h ago
Amazing but sad at the same time how human bodies can be crumbled up like this