Cosmonaut Crashed Into Earth 'Crying In Rage'

It's a tragic story of loyalty, friendship, and fatalism. It's a true story of a Russian Cosmonaut who flew a doomed mission and died while his spaceship crashed back to earth. Read it for yourself. It's an amazing story. There's even a sound clip of his last words as his spaceship starts to burn up.

by Robert Krulwich

So there's a cosmonaut up in space, circling the globe, convinced he will never make it back to Earth; he's on the phone with Alexei Kosygin — then a high official of the Soviet Union — who is crying because he, too, thinks the cosmonaut will die.

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