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Though he’d never be so self-important as to complain about it too much, they say that Sigmund Jähn’s back still hurts. It has done since September 3, 1978. No wonder. As his Soyuz capsule plummeted towards Kazakhstan a gust of wind hit it, disturbing the otherwise orderly planned deployment of the last, and the largest, …

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