Yuri gagarin where is he now

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Your message to the editors. Your email only if you want to be contacted back. Send Feedback. Thank you for taking time to provide your feedback to the editors. E-mail the story Fifty years on, Yuri Gagarin's death still shrouded in mystery. For his part, Leonov held for years that he thought the first loud boom he heard was another jet breaking the sound barrier , followed soon thereafter by the sound of Gagarin's jet hitting the ground.

A new declassified report confirmed that an unauthorized Sukhoi Su supersonic jet flew dangerously close to Gagarin's MiG Upon seeing the released report, Leonov also realized that his own account of that day had been recorded incorrectly. The report suggested that he heard the loud booms 15 to 20 seconds apart, when it was actually two seconds.

Armed with the report's data, a new computer simulation was generated, revealing why Gagarin's jet went down. And that is exactly what happened to Gagarin. That trajectory was the only one that corresponded with all our input parameters," Leonov told RT.

Leonov was allowed to go public with the story, except for one detail: the Su pilot's name. That pilot, who is now 80, is said to be in poor health. It will fix nothing. He perfectly understood his importance, because in fact, after the flight, he was very respected. He understood he was able to get to any ministry, to any minister, with any request. It wouldn't happen without him.

Without him it would be like some other villages which have already disappeared.