Did Gagarin say: “I am burning! Goodbye, comrades! ”?

For many years, the story has been spreading about how, at the end of his flight, the first astronaut decided that his death was inevitable. We checked whether Gagarin pronounced these words.

According to numerous articles and collections of facts about Yuri Gagarin, the first astronaut in the history of mankind did not suspect what would happen to his ship on the way back, at the entrance to the dense layers of the atmosphere. Seeing in the Illuminator the blazing corps of the East-1 capsule, Gagarin allegedly shouted: “I am biting! Farewell, comrades! " - And these words heard at the center of control of flights. Nowadays, the astronauts know that the flame arose as a result of friction of the heat -resistant casing of the spacecraft about the atmosphere and that no danger has threatened Gagarin. It is argued that a farewell phrase for many years was not mentioned in open sources.

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The first flight of a ship with a person aboard in outer space is an event that caused a colossal interest All over the world. About the short time (106 minutes), but many films have been shot enormous in the distance of Gagarin, dozens of books were published, in fact, every minute of his flight - within the possible - is described in detail. During the flight, Gagarin talked on on -board contacts with the Earth and recorded his observations on the onboard tape recorder. At the final stage, the launched apparatus with an astronaut on board was separated from the dash-motor compartment, entered the dense layers of the atmosphere, and already 7 km from the surface of the planet Gagarin in accordance with the instructions was catappulted and landed using a parachute.

On the East-1, which occurred on board April 12, 1961, you can learn from several main sources. Firstly, this is Decoding Radio converters between Gagarin (call sign) and persons responsible for the flight on Earth. The last message in it is from the ground: “Major Gagarin. Your flight goes normally ”(there was no answer). It was at 10:18, that is, seven minutes before the brake motor installation (TDU) is triggered. After that, the capsule with the astronaut and its entrance to the dense layers of the atmosphere occurred. All this time, according to the notes, Gagarin did not say anything to his colleagues - it seems that he simply was not in touch until the landing was in touch.

Another source of information about the flight of Gagarin - Audio recording with an on -board tape recorder. If you believe her, at 10:18 and 10:23 the astronaut informed the land that he feels good, and all the systems work normally. As you can see, in this source the last words of the astronaut came for a while before the start of braking, so after that he either did not say anything loudly, or did not write down.

The third and rather important source is a detailed report Gagarin himself, made the next day, April 13, at a meeting of the state commission. For a long time, the text of this report was classified until in 1991, in the era of publicity, it was not printed in the magazine "Izvestia of the CPSU Central Committee»Together with other notes. From the story of Gagarin it follows that after at 10:25 the TDU worked, the expected separation of the compartments did not take place. Instead, the ship began to rotate at high speed around its axes, which caused concern among the astronaut. Nevertheless, he did not give signals about problems and, moreover, to say goodbye to his comrades - he simply said after a few minutes by connection that the separation did not occur. At 10:35, the capsule with Gagarin nevertheless separated and continued her way to the ground. Further, in his report, the astronaut reports:

Suddenly, a bright-glow light appeared on the edges of the curtain. The same crimson light was observed in a small hole in the right porthole. He felt the fluctuations of the ship and the combustion of coating. I do not know where the crackle came from: either the design leaned on whether the heat shell expanded when heated, but a crackling was heard. There was one crackling in about a minute. In general, it was felt that the temperature was high.

In other words, at some point Gagarin suggested that the coating of the skin is on, however, in this fragment of the report there are no signs of panic, exclamations "I am burning!" And attempts to say goodbye to colleagues. You can come to a similar conclusion by reading Gagarin's autobiographical book "The road to space": Judging by the written, the astronaut was ready for a strong warm -up of the outer shell of the ship, he worked out such a scenario during training on Earth. In his speech in Saratov several years later Gagarin Say: He knew that the designers correctly calculated the thickness of the casing and it would not even be hot in the cockpit, although from what he saw was not up to a smile.

How testify Scientific and popular Sources, In any case, the Earth would have lost contact with Gagarin’s capsule after its entry into the dense layers of the atmosphere-the plasma formed around the device due to the release of a huge amount of heat, blocks radio signals, and this problem is not solved by the designers finally to this day.

There is no information about the panic exclamation of Gagarin in other authoritative sources: both his biographies From the series "Life of wonderful people", in the publications of Soviet times from the base of the project "Google Book", in the work of the author of many popular science works on the problems of space development Vladimir Gubarev "Gagarin's secrets: myths and the truth about the first flight".

When and where did the legend come from the cry of “grief! Goodbye, comrades! ”? Search on the Internet shows that it is almost never found on the network until 2013, when this episode has entered the selection of “ten little -known facts about Yuri Gagarin’s flight” from the publication “Arguments and facts". After that, they began to mention the quote regularly. In 2006, a replica was given by a relatively popular blogger in Livejournal Gigienishvili. The earliest direct mention of the farewell of Gagarin, which was discovered "verified", is given in the book of writer Vladimir Glushko "Cloud"(2002), in which there is such an episode:

At the last session before landing, the following conversation occurred:

- "Cedar", as the situation? - asked Korolev.
- What a situation! I am grief, I burn! Farewell ... - The tone was panic.

In a slightly earlier (2001) publication of journalist Alexander Milkus in "Komsomolskaya Pravda"There is a proposal" "grief!" “Yuri Alekseevich has already begun to mentally say goodbye to life.” It does not directly claim that Gagarin conveyed this word by radio communications or even pronounced it aloud.

Now it’s difficult to establish for certain who and when he launched the legend of the farewell words of Gagarin, but, apparently, this happened in the 1990s or in the very beginning of the 2000s. Perhaps the other two are related to its appearance: the words “hot! I am grief! " attributed who died during the flight in 1967 to the astronaut Vladimir Komarov, and "Farewell!" -A test pilot Oleg Gudkov, departed from life, like Gagarin, during a training flight on an instant a moment. The story of the panic of Gagarin is not confirmed by any reputable sources and, most likely, is not true.

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Most likely not true

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