1971 Press Photo Russians listen to the latest news & mourn deceased astronauts
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Russians listen to the latest news & mourn deceased astronauts. Grim-faced Russians listen to latest news of tragic death of space crew. Three Soviet cosmonauts died today as their Soyuz 11 spaceship was bringing them back from a record three-week flight aboard the Salute space laboratory. Foreign experts speculated they suffocated when their oxygen system failed. Heinz Kaminsky, director of the Bochum Observatory in West Germany, said the oxygen system probably was knocked out during re-entry to the earths atmosphere. Moscow
