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January 28, 2008
3 more names to add to the roll of honor.
Gagarin was not the first cosmonaut
The Soviet Union collapsed because, well, when you get really good at keeping secrets, you eventually start to make decisions based of bad information. The fact that the whole world knows the names of every American who died trying to reach space meant that eventually America would prevail.
Nonetheless: humanity-- all of humanity-- owes a debt to those who gave their lives attempting to push back the borders of ignorance, to enlarge the principality of human knowledge. Ledovskikh, Shaborin and Mitkov. Remember them.
Posted by Andrew at January 28, 2008 08:27 PM
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