I don't understand - it says later that only a chipped heel bone survived

also from the comments:

While the general line of the story is apparently correct - it can be easily compiled based on the info freely available on Russian internet, specifically in Wikipedia. Two points which are supposed to "sell" the story smell bad. First, being native Russian speaker I carefully searched Russian Internet and found not a single mentioning of the KGB agent Venyamin Russayev. This name transliterates very well and the fact that no single mentioning of this person along or in the context with the name of Komarov leads to only one conclusion - this is a fictional character. Given that current Russian press is very eager to tell any sort of conspiracy theory, including the story that Gagarin never flew to space, I don't believe that KGB person name would not show up immediately.
The second thing is that it's not in character of the first Soviet cosmonauts to "cry in rage", they may have sweared really badly, but cry - never. They knew very well how slim their chances to come back anytime they flew. Six unmanned test launches followed that tragic flight until the spaceship was considered "safe".

So the bottom line is: in attempt to sell the recycled piece of info authors putsome gristly details on the cover. Is this a novelty?

Posted By: Worzel Scrimmage, Mar 23, 14:12:42