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<div dir="auto"> This is a quote from the book rocketspeople
volume 2<br>
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setting: A four stage R-7 being prepped for a flight Venus
1961?</div>
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"On the very first day of tests at the launch site, we discovered
that the third stage gyro horizon rapidly drifted and moved to a
stop position, thus issuing an emergency engine shutdown command.
After several tries we still couldn’t determine the cause of the
defect. Viktor Kuznetsov accepted the blame and proposed replacing
the instrument.<br>
At 11 p.m. on 3 February, a 15-minute State Commission meeting was
held right in the bunker. On behalf of Chief Designer Pilyugin,
Finogeyev reported the readiness of the launch vehicle control
system. Ishlinskiy, who had been assigned to determine the
possible causes for the gyro horizon’s abnormal drift, gave a
3-minute report with his innate professorial flair. The snoozing
Keldysh gave a start, and violating the official rules of order,
concluded, “Even a person who doesn’t know the gyroscope’s
operating principles can see from your report that it is better to
fly without gyroscopes.”<br>
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style="color:rgb(153,0,0)" size="4">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</font><br>
<span style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif">It's a small
</span><span
style="color:rgb(51,102,255);font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif">world</span><span
style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif">, till you try to
dig a </span><span
style="color:rgb(153,102,51);font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif">hole</span><span
style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif"> in it.</span><br>
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