Soyuz crashes into mountains, cosmonauts injured.
By VKXY62
@VKXY62 (1605)
Australia
November 21, 2006 7:54pm CST
A soyuz space capsule carrying two soviet cosmonauts crashed into a mountainous area of Western China during a blizzard. One of the cosmonauts suffered several broken bones. Lazarev was not able to make a space flight again. It was quite a few hours before they were rescued by a soviet helicopter.
This happened on April 5 1975.
The flight of Soyuz 18A.
They crew were,
Vasili Lazarev
He was injured by the high acceleration of the abort and landing and was initially denied his spaceflight bonus pay, having to appeal directly to Brezhnev to receive it.
Lazarev held a PhD in medicine and the rank of colonel in the Soviet Air Force. He remained in the space programme until failing a physical in 1981.
He died of alcohol poisoning in Moscow.
and Oleg Makarov, flew in space again.
This may be another one of those snippets, no-one seems to know.
Did you?
3 responses
@taisa911 (2)
• China
28 May 07
How could the soviet helicopter flew ove the heavily garrisoned sino-soviet border without noticed by the defenders of the china side in 1975? (At that time, the two nations are involved in serious distrust and rivalries. There are over 1 million Chinese millitary personnel deployed along the sino-soviet border defending the land of the middle kingdom from the imaginary impending soviet full-scale invasion.) Of course, they have radar, armor, AA weaponry, search-and-destroy teams. They could have found the soviet capsule before the soviet helicopter if there is a soviet helicopter's entry.
That is to say: your story is to be questioned from my point of view, from my perspective or my history education background. I hope you can do more research and contribute more detail to the post.
