CIA kidnapped Soviet spaceship
 

http://www.popsci.com/sites/popsci.c...?itok=-IwK6y7A

For anyone who loves reading about the Space Race.... It seems in the late 1950s / early 1960s the Soviets used to have their Lunik spacecraft tour other countries. And at some point, the CIA "borrowed" it to take it apart, document, and photograph it....

I love reading stuff like this:

The CIA's Bold Kidnapping of a Soviet Spacecraft | Popular Science

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.

The Soviets were so intent on winning the space race they sent a lot of people on one way trips into space :disgust

That's a old one, but it's one of my favorite cold war spy stories.

slow..??

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.

radio intercepted encrypted signal from space?
the lost astronauts
Ñïèñîê àñòðîíàâòîâ è êîñìîíàâòîâ, ïîãèáøèõ ïðè âûïîëíåíèè ïîëåòîâ

First Soviet cosmonavt still in space:winkwink:

http://mainfun.ru/image/33/164/USA_about_Russia_01.jpg

:1orglaugh

Waiting for Boris to chime in