Re:In Russia’s Space Graveyard, Locals Scavenge Fallen Space...
by itronitron on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @01:06AM
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That story is included in J. G. Ballard's 1988 book, Memories of the Space Age >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memories_of_the_Space_Age
Published during the cold war, so unlikely to be based on the real thing. (Also the spacecraft in this are re-entering rather than falling to ground during launch.)