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27: Lost Cosmonauts

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Comedy, Education, Science

4.9640 Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

What’s worse, the cold vacuum of space or a Russian forest during winter? 

Two Cosmonauts found out the answer to that question the hard way when they crash landed in the woods after the first space walk in history. They had to contend against wolves, bears, and the most useless rescuers imaginable. Tune in to find out the story of the lost cosmonauts!

References and Further Reading
  1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7355912.stm
  2. http://archive.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2008/04/20/russian_spacecraft_lands_way_off_course/
  3. https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSL2362874120080423
  4. https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.seeker.com/amphtml/cosmonauts-faced-cold-snow-after-dicey-landing-1767335720.html
  5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mUO1TDr7fQ
  6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmXdWLWMTkg
  7. Hall, Rex; Shayler, David J. (2001). The rocket men : Vostok & Voskhod, the first Soviet manned spaceflights.
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0:00.0

Hey guys, I'm just going to start the show with a little email today. This is from Roshanak. That's a cool name. It's a cool name. That's a really cool name. It says, Hi, I'm Roshi, cool shortening of Roshinac. A high school student in Sweden who very much enjoys your podcast. It may be love and I genuinely gain a lot of information from it. Congratulations, just Corrie, because me and James

0:21.9

provide none of the information. In your most, in your more recent episodes, you've been mentioning

0:26.0

diabetes a lot. And when the topic comes up, I get weirdly excited because I have type 1 diabetes.

0:31.6

That's good that we somehow didn't offend people with diabetes because I was a little bit worried

0:35.0

about that. I don't know why, but there's a weirdly inclusive feeling for diabetes to be mentioned. Cool. Also, Luke, your episode, the time traveling twins really helped the discussion in my philosophy class. So thanks for that. You're welcome. Probably the, we are trying to do science, but I tried to make it about philosophy. And I'm very happy about that. So you're very welcome, Roshy.

0:55.0

I'm not sure where I'm going with this email.

0:57.0

Just wanted to let you guys that you make my week a little bit better.

1:00.0

Keep up the amazing work, Rushy.

1:02.0

Roshy.

1:03.0

Fantastic.

1:04.0

That's made me so happy.

1:05.0

Thanks Roshy.

1:06.0

That's a nice email.

1:07.0

Let's start the show.

1:16.8

Hello and welcome to the side guys, the show where we talk about the crazy, weird and wonderful stories from

1:19.5

the science world.

1:20.4

I'm Corey, and as always, I'm joined by my go-hosts, Jam and Luke Cutfer.

1:23.7

I'm a go-host now.

1:25.4

Go-host.

1:25.9

It's hot in my throat.

1:39.3

Yeah. I'm a go host now. Go host. It's hot in my throat. This week we'll be talking about Soviet survival and cosmonaut capers. In March of 1965, two Soviet cosmonaut had to face freezing conditions and other things.

1:45.3

Ooh. While not in space. What? They crashed hundreds of, hundreds of miles, of course.

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