The Bayknor museum director hugged me in gratitude for making these changes possible. That list is similar to the one that I saw in 1990 on the obelisk in the memorial park in Leninsk, but it is not identical. There are several spelling errors and Nedelin's name is on the museum's list. It was explained to me that these names are only of those victims who were from the Baikonur contingent, and that the ICBM engineers and technicians on temporary duty from the Yangel Bureau in Dnepropetrovsk are not listed. More than fifty names are given on the Baikonur list, but the best estimates of the total death toll now center around 165 fatalities.
Progress is now slow but steady.
He is still working on an exhibit detailing the N1 moon rocket. It is a marvellous, deeply rewarding development. And it turns out that they knew of our work for decades. It encouraged them that serious researchers wanted the real story, and thus many of them secretly stashed historical materials in safe storage, awaiting the day when it could all come out and be shared. That day has come.