Comments by "Rob Fraser" (@krashd) on "The Mysterious "Lost Cosmonaut" Recording | Random Thursday" video.

  1. Laika's capsule was one of many Russian spacecraft to eventually land in China, albeit after enduring the 3,000 degree temperature of re-entry and then bursting into flames when it hit the ground. It is said that when those first Chinese folk opened the capsule they found the aroma inside it to be irresistible and Chinese cuisine was changed forever.
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  2.  @mattperrin8372  There are hard core conspiracy theorists who believe in the nonsense they peddle, but I believe the majority of the "this is fake" commenters on videos really are just trolling - on the internet it is 'hip and trendy' to hop on a bandwagon and become part of the cool crowd by parroting what others say. Cabbages enjoy the company of fellow cabbages...
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  3. The dog would have been weightless and so it's heart would have less work to do.
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  4. It's also possible that if this is genuine she might simply have had a fire aboard her vehicle and was not in re-entry. If you are falling through the atmosphere and you can feel heat on your suit then your heat shielding was gone long ago and something inside the craft is burning and producing hot gas that envelopes your suit.
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  5. Vladimir Komarov. Often mistakenly thought to have burned up on re-entry thanks to a gruesome photo of his charred remains, he actually survived re-entry but his capsule hit the ground like a bullet and burst into flames due to the parachute failing to deploy. Incidentally he had a very strong feeling it would be a suicide mission and so volunteered for it after realising his good friend, and national hero, Yuri Gagarin had been put forward for it. The Soyuz 1 was unfinished but the Soviet brass demanded a manned demonstration of it's capabilities for the 50th anniversary of the 1917 revolution, when Komarov could not talk them out of it he demanded that he take the place of Gagarin and he died when his doubts about the untested spacecraft proved correct. The Soyuz would however go on to become the longest and safest (by an enormous margin) crew capsule to ever be used as we still rely on them today 62 years later, albeit a much improved version that can pretty much launch, fly and dock itself if need be. It will be sad to see it retired now that SpaceX, Boeing and Roscosmos are all trialling new crew capsules.
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  6. Glooooooove?
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