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The story about lost cosmonauts still lives on

https://www.facebook.com/thevintagenews/posts/1962607353814369 Kimmo Huosionmaa When we are thinking of early years of space flights, we must say that no engineering work comes from nowhere. There must make work with those vehicles, and then there would happen some mistakes with them. And those mistakes confesses, that engineers made their best, and all tests were done. NASA has been dared to show those mistakes, and that might save the lives of American astronauts. There were actually some secrets in the space capsules, what was not told to the public audience. One was that in some cases are the capsules used inertial navigation system or they were remote controlled, and somebody claims that none astronauts ever made any maneuvers by Mercury or Vostok-capsules. But when we are thinking about the lost astronauts or cosmonauts, we must say that there might be something, what is not told to people. Until NASA:s shuttle orbiter and the cases, when that space plane was used to launc...