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Originally Posted by Muad'Dib
There supposedly was a first Soviet woman astronaut in space, but it appears her space ship burned down and the soviets hushed it. Here's a radio transmission that some Italian radio enthusiasts intercepted and recorded:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMLF8jhIHsE
Later after the event the USSR claimed that it was just some satellite that crashed. |
I bet there is a lot we still do not know about the Russian side of the Space Race. While their initial attempts were amazing, I wonder how many behind the scenes failures they had.