The real cause behind the plane crash that killed Yuri Gagarin in 1968.
The real cause behind the plane crash that killed Yuri Gagarin in 1968.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
The real cause behind the plane crash that killed Yuri Gagarin in 1968.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Anything is plausible, playing with fast jets at low altitude can be fairly dangerous, adding a second jet and wake turbulence could kill you, soviet politics and the death of another cosmonaut could also have killed Gargarin, the article said the two aircraft were thirty miles and I assume they meant thirty meters, I can see dare devils playing this close in the sky even under soviet rule, these pilots were expected to play hard, US or Soviet! I think the article is non-committal as to weather it was a Soviet hit job. Yuri was angry with Soviet rule over the death of his comrade being killed in unproven spacecraft, is that enough to get you killed in Russia, I don’t know!
Don’t over speculate. The article provides the first plausible explanation for the accident I’ve ever seen. And based on what I know of 1960s Soviet-era politics (which is quite a lot, based on two trips to Russia and one book), it is quite reasonable. As for your speculation that this might have been a hit job, there isn’t a chance in hell the Russians would have killed Gagarin. He was and continues to be a national hero of the highest order. He was also a very loyal Russian. He might have had disagreements with his higher-ups, but he never did anything to defy the society he lived in.
I agree!