Mikoyan, Andrei
Person · Russia
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Rare view of suited cosmonaut in the interior of the LK Interior during landing training. The cosmonaut had a viewing angle to the surface through the main window of 7 degrees from the vertical. A collimator indicated the predicted LK landing point.
Credit: RKK Energia
Russian phantom cosmonaut. Story made rounds at ESA in 2000 of two Russian cosmonauts that died in 1969 on lunar landing attempt. Source was TV series, 'The Cape', episode 'Buried in Peace', aired 1996.10.28.
A story made the rounds of ESA in 2000 of two Russian cosmonauts that died in an attempt to reach the moon in their spacecraft (1969). They were supposed to land on the moon, but due to some system malfunction they failed to get into lunar orbit and therefore passed the moon.
The source of this story was undoubtedly the television series 'The Cape'. The episode 'Buried in Peace' first aired on 28 October 1996. In the story, a shuttle crew on a mission to repair a communications satellite encounters a derelict Soviet spacecraft with a dead crew - the result of a secret attempt to send a manned mission to the moon 30 years earlier, and before the United States. Tom Nowicki played Major Andrei Mikoyan in the story.
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- Family
- Phantom Cosmonaut
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- Russia
Chronology
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1969 July 1
- Death of Andrei Mikoyan - . Nation: Russia. Related Persons: Mikoyan, Andrei. Russian phantom cosmonaut. Story made rounds at ESA in 2000 of two Russian cosmonauts that died in 1969 on lunar landing attempt. Source was TV series, 'The Cape', episode 'Buried in Peace', aired 1996.10.28..