died with music
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aimedforthemoonOne day, some weeks ago, the Bar gave the Russian astronaut some newspapers. She was trying to be helpful.
Soviet craft hits Great Barrier Reef
11 May, 1965
CAIRNS, QUEENSLAND, Australia — An unidentified Soviet spacecraft landed over the Great Barrier Reef early yesterday morning near Thursday Island. The craft, discovered by a group of divers aboard the Arafura
[...]
latest Soviet endeavor in the “Space Race” with the United States. As of press time, NASA officials could not be reached for comment.
And maybe Bar succeeded, because Esfir certainly had something to fill her days with, and it's always nice to know what happens to one's body, isn't it?
Unidentified body found in downed Soviet spacecraft
16 May, 1965
BRISBANE, QUEENSLAND, Australia — The body of a young woman was discovered in the Soviet test craft that landed near Thursday Island earlier this week.
Szabo Tibor, a diver from the Arafura, said he swam down to see what had hit the water just before dawn.
“At first, I thought it looked like a giant spider,” he said.
There was no response from inside when he knocked repeatedly on the hull.
“As far as I could tell,” Tibor said, “there was no one inside.”
When Tibor and his shipmates hauled the capsule aboard the Arafura and opened the small vessel, they found the corpse, and then contacted Thursday Island police.
BRISBANE, QUEENSLAND, Australia — A body found inside the Soviet spacecraft that landed near Thursday Island last month has been identified by Thursday Island police.
The woman, 26-year-old Esfir Shostakovna Yazycova, was a former lieutenant in the Soviet Air Force and is assumed to be a member of the Soviet Space Program at the time of her death. According to an autopsy, Yazycova suffocated inside the shuttle shortly after it hit the Pacific Ocean.
She reads things, gossip and rumours and allegations and enough 'no comments' to make her want to scream. She reads about Vilnor Osipov, and wonders why the the communications liaison for the Soviet Space Program is now unreachable.
(she makes a note of that, along side his name)
She reads and studies and, yes, she's making herself sick over it, but
Diver confesses he murdered Soviet astronaut
23 January, 1966
BRISBANE, QUEENSLAND, Australia — Szabo Tibor has confessed to murdering the Soviet astronaut found dead in her spacecraft in May last year, Brisbane police say.
Tibor, a diver on the Arafura, said he allowed former Lt. Esfir Shostakovna Yazycova to run out of oxygen before he told his crew to haul up her shuttle on the morning of 10 May.
Tibor, originally from Budapest, told police he “blamed” Yazycova for the 1956 Soviet invasion that killed his brother and the rest of his family. Tibor also handed over unnamed evidence he reportedly found with and subsequently took from Yazycova’s body last year. Tibor is currently in police custody; a hearing is set for 8 March.
She has to know.
‘Astronaut killer’ found guilty
22 September, 1967
BRISBANE, QUEENSLAND, Australia — After more than two years, the mystery surrounding former Soviet Lt. Esfir Shostakovna Yazycova’s death has been solved.
On the morning of 10 May, 1965, a small Soviet Space Program craft crashed into the Pacific Ocean, near Thursday Island. Soviet officials denied all knowledge of the pilot’s existence, saying the shuttle was unmanned and remotely controlled by a computer.
The public was assured that the “prototype functioned precisely as our scientists anticipated,” by Vilnor Osipov, spokesman for the program at the time. “It was engineered to land harmlessly in the Pacific.”
However, the craft was manned, and after it landed over the Great Barrier Reef, diver Szabo Tibor swam down to investigate.
During his trial, he revealed he communicated with Yazycova by knocking on the hull of her ship, finding out how many hours of oxygen she had left.
And then, Tibor said from the witness stand, “I let her die.”
Tibor, originally from Budapest, said he blamed Yazycova for the 1956 Soviet invasion that killed his brother and the rest of his family.
Last year, during his confession to Brisbane police, Tibor turned over evidence that was used during the trial — a tape Yazycova recorded during her underwater exchanges with Tibor.
The recording included the following words from Tibor: “You’ve got five hours to die. My brother took longer than that, when he ran into the mine field. You understand? I’m from Budapest! I hate you and your country and everything it stands for. You’ve taken my home, my family, made my people slaves. I wish I could see your face now! I wish I could watch you die, as I had to watch Theo. When you’re halfway to the island, this rope is going to break where I cut it. I’ll go down and fix another and that’ll break, too. You can sit in there and wait for the bumps. ”
Szabo Tibor will serve a lifetime sentence in Fremantle Prison for Yazycova’s murder; he will not be extradited to the Soviet Union
GUILTY
And that's what she wanted. And if-
And if she locks her door and doesn't answer, and if her fingers are stained black with ink and her eyes red from weeping, and if she feels hollow and wrung out and can't read anymore...Everything is coloured with relief. She can breathe in, breathe out, and the coldness around her heart...if not gone, is at least not so bad. It's managable.
Because...
He didn't get away with it.
11 May, 1965
CAIRNS, QUEENSLAND, Australia — An unidentified Soviet spacecraft landed over the Great Barrier Reef early yesterday morning near Thursday Island. The craft, discovered by a group of divers aboard the Arafura
[...]
latest Soviet endeavor in the “Space Race” with the United States. As of press time, NASA officials could not be reached for comment.
And maybe Bar succeeded, because Esfir certainly had something to fill her days with, and it's always nice to know what happens to one's body, isn't it?
Unidentified body found in downed Soviet spacecraft
16 May, 1965
BRISBANE, QUEENSLAND, Australia — The body of a young woman was discovered in the Soviet test craft that landed near Thursday Island earlier this week.
Szabo Tibor, a diver from the Arafura, said he swam down to see what had hit the water just before dawn.
“At first, I thought it looked like a giant spider,” he said.
There was no response from inside when he knocked repeatedly on the hull.
“As far as I could tell,” Tibor said, “there was no one inside.”
When Tibor and his shipmates hauled the capsule aboard the Arafura and opened the small vessel, they found the corpse, and then contacted Thursday Island police.
oh you are such a liar
The woman, 26-year-old Esfir Shostakovna Yazycova, was a former lieutenant in the Soviet Air Force and is assumed to be a member of the Soviet Space Program at the time of her death. According to an autopsy, Yazycova suffocated inside the shuttle shortly after it hit the Pacific Ocean.
7 June? Took you long enough.
She reads things, gossip and rumours and allegations and enough 'no comments' to make her want to scream. She reads about Vilnor Osipov, and wonders why the the communications liaison for the Soviet Space Program is now unreachable.
(she makes a note of that, along side his name)
She reads and studies and, yes, she's making herself sick over it, but
23 January, 1966
BRISBANE, QUEENSLAND, Australia — Szabo Tibor has confessed to murdering the Soviet astronaut found dead in her spacecraft in May last year, Brisbane police say.
Tibor, a diver on the Arafura, said he allowed former Lt. Esfir Shostakovna Yazycova to run out of oxygen before he told his crew to haul up her shuttle on the morning of 10 May.
Tibor, originally from Budapest, told police he “blamed” Yazycova for the 1956 Soviet invasion that killed his brother and the rest of his family. Tibor also handed over unnamed evidence he reportedly found with and subsequently took from Yazycova’s body last year. Tibor is currently in police custody; a hearing is set for 8 March.
She has to know.
22 September, 1967
BRISBANE, QUEENSLAND, Australia — After more than two years, the mystery surrounding former Soviet Lt. Esfir Shostakovna Yazycova’s death has been solved.
On the morning of 10 May, 1965, a small Soviet Space Program craft crashed into the Pacific Ocean, near Thursday Island. Soviet officials denied all knowledge of the pilot’s existence, saying the shuttle was unmanned and remotely controlled by a computer.
The public was assured that the “prototype functioned precisely as our scientists anticipated,” by Vilnor Osipov, spokesman for the program at the time. “It was engineered to land harmlessly in the Pacific.”
However, the craft was manned, and after it landed over the Great Barrier Reef, diver Szabo Tibor swam down to investigate.
During his trial, he revealed he communicated with Yazycova by knocking on the hull of her ship, finding out how many hours of oxygen she had left.
And then, Tibor said from the witness stand, “I let her die.”
Tibor, originally from Budapest, said he blamed Yazycova for the 1956 Soviet invasion that killed his brother and the rest of his family.
Last year, during his confession to Brisbane police, Tibor turned over evidence that was used during the trial — a tape Yazycova recorded during her underwater exchanges with Tibor.
The recording included the following words from Tibor: “You’ve got five hours to die. My brother took longer than that, when he ran into the mine field. You understand? I’m from Budapest! I hate you and your country and everything it stands for. You’ve taken my home, my family, made my people slaves. I wish I could see your face now! I wish I could watch you die, as I had to watch Theo. When you’re halfway to the island, this rope is going to break where I cut it. I’ll go down and fix another and that’ll break, too. You can sit in there and wait for the bumps. ”
Szabo Tibor will serve a lifetime sentence in Fremantle Prison for Yazycova’s murder; he will not be extradited to the Soviet Union
Szabo Tibor
found guilty
guilty
found guilty
guilty
And that's what she wanted. And if-
And if she locks her door and doesn't answer, and if her fingers are stained black with ink and her eyes red from weeping, and if she feels hollow and wrung out and can't read anymore...Everything is coloured with relief. She can breathe in, breathe out, and the coldness around her heart...if not gone, is at least not so bad. It's managable.
Because...
He didn't get away with it.
