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He Had Just Crossed the Atmosphere in a Capsule Backwards: the Soviet Cosmonaut Landed Alone in a Steppe at -38 °C.

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A Soviet cosmonaut literally crossed the fire to return alive to Earth, and it was neither his cold-bloodedness nor an intervention from the ground that pulled him out of business. Boris Volynov found himself alone in command of a ship that threatened to consume himself around him, a victim of a mechanical damage that no one had anticipated. [...]
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A Soviet cosmonaut literally crossed the fire to return alive to Earth, and it was neither his cold-bloodedness nor an intervention from the ground that pulled him out of business. Boris Volynov found himself alone in command of a ship that threatened to consume himself around him, a victim of a mechanical damage that no one had anticipated. [...]

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SciencePost broke the news on Sunday, October 18, 2026.
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