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In article <6JAN199307482632@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov> packer@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov (Charles Packer) writes:
>In article <1993Jan5.201051.13058@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>, stank@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (Stan Krieger) writes...
>>parachute deployment that killed the solo astronaut, and the second was
>>an apparent opening of the door of a 3 man spaceship when the retro-rockets
>>were fired (and the cosmonauts weren't wearing space suits).  
>
>This is bizarre. It suggests that Russian and American spacecraft
>doors are designed by the same company...

It wasn't a door. On Soyuz 11 the seperation of the orbital module took
place when firing of several pyrotechnics all at once instead of in 
some order.  The shock from this opened the capsules pressure equilization
valve at a high altitude, it is normaly opened at low altitude to ease 
opening the hatch. 
This was all analyzed in great detail before the ASTP mission and is 
well documented in the NASA history for ASTP. For those who want all
the gory details, I hear that a US film maker is preparing Russian films
of the Soyuz 11 crew recovery, the Soyuz 1 crash and fire, and the
Nedelin disaster for release soon. That's all I know about it so far
so don't ask me any questions about it. If anyone knows more please
post it. 

Dennis Newkirk (dennisn@ecs.comm.mot.com)
Motorola, Land Mobile Products Sector
Schaumburg, IL