Failure To Launch

Cosmonaut Boris Volynov almost died twice in one week in January 1969. The first was when his Soyuz-5 capsule nearly burned up on reentry. The second was when a Soviet Army defector ambushed the motorcade carrying him, seven other cosmonauts, and Premier Leonid Brezhnev with akimbo Makarovs.
This is Part 1 of our series into the weird story of an attempted assassination of the leader of the Soviet Union.
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SOURCES:
- Into the Cosmos, Asif Siddiqi and James Andrews
- The First Cosmonaut Team, Colin Burgess and Rex Hall
- Soyuz-4 and 5 crews perform docking, spacewalk between ships, Anatoly Zak
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On audience request, this time we're reviewing 2007's Sunshine. It's got a great cast, a legendary soundtrack, good reviews, financial failure, and it made Cillian Murphy an atheist.

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No, a trio of astronauts on NASA's Skylab station did not stage a mutiny over poor working conditions. Yes, they would've been justified if they had staged a real mutiny. Today, we're tackling Skylab-4 and the legend of the First Strike in Space.
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SOURCES:
- Skylab: The Human Side of a Scientific Mission
- https://nss.org/space-myths-busted-no-there-wasnt-a-mutiny-on-skylab/
- https://nss.org/i-finally-read-a-house-in-space-and-it-is-a-big-ol-mess/

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