a story about Vladimir Kamarov and Yuri Gagarin

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So there's a cosmonaut up in space, circling the globe, convinced he will never make it back to Earth; he's on the phone with Alexei Kosygin — then a high official of the Soviet Union — who is crying because he, too, thinks the cosmonaut will die.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/20...crying-in-rage