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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. |
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That's a old one, but it's one of my favorite cold war spy stories.
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the lost astronauts Список астронавтов и космонавтов, погибших при выполнении полетов |
First Soviet cosmonavt still in space:winkwink:
http://mainfun.ru/image/33/164/USA_about_Russia_01.jpg |
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Waiting for Boris to chime in
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