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The story of the 3 astronauts who died smiling

The eagerness of man for knowledge has no limits.And his curiosity for outer space and all the vast mysteries that rise beyond our little blue planet, seemed to have no end in that time of rivalries between Russia and the United States.

There are many misfortunes that occurred inside small Soviet or American ships, human losses that occurred in that effort for a space race which brought us great discoveries and new paths that it travels.Unfortunate deaths that today rise to the altar of state heroes, but also that of mysterious deaths, such as those of these three Russian astronauts who said goodbye to their families on June 6, 1971, without knowing that they would never return...

The Soyuz 11, a new success for the Soviet space race

Their names were Viktor Patsayev, Vladislav Volkov and Gueorgui Dobrovolsk. They were chosen to rea To perform a seemingly simple but very relevant task for the country.The Soyuz 11 remained forever in the history books for being the first manned mission that aimed to inhabit a space station.

The 3 astronauts were dismissed as authentic heroes, as space riders riding in their small ship space on June 6, 1971 towards a new success in the Soviet space race .And so it was.On June 8, our cosmonauts started the first tasks at the Salyut 1 space station, orienting their panels towards the sun Something so simple that immediately, I reach the press around the world.

The story of the 3 astronauts who died smiling

The following days they performed simple maintenance tasks, while from time to time, they contacted them on television, recommending that they remember to do some exercise to alleviate the effects of weightlessness .Something that really d, they had not done at any time during their previous training.

The 3 astronauts were in the station from June 7 to June 29 of that same month of June 1971, thus obtaining a new record of permanence in space .But that day, it was decided that it was time for the heroes to return home...

The inexplicable smile of death

Everything indicated that the return trip was progressing without any problem.They had no contact with Soyuz 11, but it was normal during that moment when the ships crossed the ionosphere again. The base was quiet and he hoped that, in just a few hours, the entire country would celebrate one more success without setbacks.

But something happened.Something hedgehog the skin of all those technicians who ran to receive the ship already landed on the ground.Why was no sound heard? Why are none of the three astronauts moving to help them open the hatch? And even more… Why did they smile that way without moving a single muscle?

They were dead.All three.At some point in the return trip something had happened to them without the base perceiving it.The disaster was done.Now, it was time to analyze, the hypothesis and the duel.

The story of the 3 astronauts who died smiling

For a time it was thought that perhaps, the cabin had suffered a sudden decompression , but the autopsies revealed that there was no internal bleeding.How could it be? There was no thrombosis, no heart attacks… only those smiles.Those sinister smiles of happiness.

One of the explanations provided was that of a Turkish doctor, Gultekin Gaymec, who remembered to the medical and technical authorities the terrible intensity of the electric charges that exist in the atmosphere, and that usually follow very scheduled cycles.It was surely at the moment they entered the ionosphere when they suffered these discharges, at which time perhaps in deadly doses the alkalosis in the blood and tissues, causing the heart to stop, causing that terrible stroke in all three astronauts...

Since then, in the wake of the Soyuz 11 disaster, our spacecraft are better protected externally to cope with the effects of electric fields and solar activity.It is unknown for sure that caused the death of these three astronauts, since a clear diagnosis was not made, but what we can intuit is that, despite dying with a smile on their faces, they did not leave this world with gracious happiness or complacency...

Image: NASA Goddard Space Flig, Angelo DeSantis

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