bigbenjo: The remains of Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov.He knew the space ship he was supposed to fly in was riddled with faults and alerted the head of the USSR’s space program, to no avail. If he refused to fly, the back-up pilot would be sent instead. The back-up pilot was his good mate Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space.He crashed to Earth, crying with rage. Read more over at NPR.

bigbenjo:

The remains of Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov.
He knew the space ship he was supposed to fly in was riddled with faults and alerted the head of the USSR’s space program, to no avail.
If he refused to fly, the back-up pilot would be sent instead. The back-up pilot was his good mate Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space.
He crashed to Earth, crying with rage.

Read more over at NPR.

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