After Soyuz 11 makes a textbook re-entry and touchdown in 1971, a hero’s welcome awaits the three cosmonauts inside. However when the hatch to the spacecraft opens, a horrifying scene is revealed. This leaves the Soviet Union with an pressing thriller: if every part went to plan, what killed their cosmonauts?
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Additional Studying
The first sources for this episode had been Two Sides of the Moon by Alexei Leonov and David Scott, and twin articles on Soyuz 11 by Ben Evans, The Crew That By no means Flew and The Crew That By no means Got here Dwelling.
Different sources embody 50 Years In the past: Launch of Salyut, the World’s First House Station, Homesick for the Mountains, and The Victorian Perception {That a} Practice Experience May Trigger Instantaneous Madness.
