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bitch Laika.
bitch Laika.
Russian Pravda
Russian Pravda
Gagarin was not the first cosmonaut... Three Soviet pilots died in attempts to conquer space before Gagarin’s famous space flight, reported Mikhail Rudenko, senior engineer-experimenter with Experimental Design Office 456 (located at Khimki, in the Moscow region). According to Rudenko, spacecraft with pilots Ledovskikh, Shaborin and Mitkov at the controls had been launched from the Kapustin Yar cosmodrome (in the Astrakhan region) in 1957, 1958 and 1959.
Gagarin was not the first cosmonaut... Three Soviet pilots died in attempts to conquer space before Gagarin’s famous space flight, reported Mikhail Rudenko, senior engineer-experimenter with Experimental Design Office 456 (located at Khimki, in the Moscow region). According to Rudenko, spacecraft with pilots Ledovskikh, Shaborin and Mitkov at the controls had been launched from the Kapustin Yar cosmodrome (in the Astrakhan region) in 1957, 1958 and 1959.
Vostok spacecraft.
Vostok spacecraft.
Valentin – Valentin Bondarenko. And he was not only an air force lieutenant but also a cosmonaut. The question is: what had befallen him and why was his body ‘totally denuded of skin’, as Dr Golyakovsky remembered?
Valentin – Valentin Bondarenko. And he was not only an air force lieutenant but also a cosmonaut. The question is: what had befallen him and why was his body ‘totally denuded of skin’, as Dr Golyakovsky remembered?
that can get hot enough to burn off a man’s skin almost entirely; - in which just his feet, of all things, remain undamaged; - in which no fire extinguisher is to hand; - in which the occupant cannot easily be accessed in case of an accident.
that can get hot enough to burn off a man’s skin almost entirely; - in which just his feet, of all things, remain undamaged; - in which no fire extinguisher is to hand; - in which the occupant cannot easily be accessed in case of an accident.
In his book about Gagarin, Gagarin – Kozmikus hazugzag? (Gagarin – a cosmic lie?), the Hungarian author István Nemere
In his book about Gagarin, Gagarin – Kozmikus hazugzag? (Gagarin – a cosmic lie?), the Hungarian author István Nemere
failed space flight in early April 1961; one of these is indeed Valentin Bondarenko. The other was called Vladimir Ilyushin.16
failed space flight in early April 1961; one of these is indeed Valentin Bondarenko. The other was called Vladimir Ilyushin.16
The Soviets lied for all they were worth – without taking any account of resulting disadvantages. The trouble is that those lies still exist in our school and history books.
The Soviets lied for all they were worth – without taking any account of resulting disadvantages. The trouble is that those lies still exist in our school and history books.
new hero signified new good fortune. He was to bring the enemy to a halt, if not in space then at least at the propaganda front. This was Flight Lieutenant Yuri Gagarin. Only one thing was required of him. To parachute out of an aeroplane on a certain day and thereafter land on the earth, as well as in the annals of world history, as a cosmonaut. Everything else would be attended to by Soviet propaganda.
new hero signified new good fortune. He was to bring the enemy to a halt, if not in space then at least at the propaganda front. This was Flight Lieutenant Yuri Gagarin. Only one thing was required of him. To parachute out of an aeroplane on a certain day and thereafter land on the earth, as well as in the annals of world history, as a cosmonaut. Everything else would be attended to by Soviet propaganda.
Soviets announce loss of Sputnik VI December 1960 Loss of Alexis Grassiov
Soviets announce loss of Sputnik VI December 1960 Loss of Alexis Grassiov
Sound of heartbeat and breathing from space, possibly Gennady Mikhailov (source: Judica-Cordiglia)
Sound of heartbeat and breathing from space, possibly Gennady Mikhailov (source: Judica-Cordiglia)
Valentin Bondarenko taken to hospital 7 April 1961 Space flight of Vladimir Ilyushin (source: The Cosmonaut Coverup, inter alia)
Valentin Bondarenko taken to hospital 7 April 1961 Space flight of Vladimir Ilyushin (source: The Cosmonaut Coverup, inter alia)
Yuri Gagarin, Vostok 1, first Soviet in space, orbital (source: official) 5 May 1961 Alan Shepard, first American in space, suborbital (source: official)
Yuri Gagarin, Vostok 1, first Soviet in space, orbital (source: official) 5 May 1961 Alan Shepard, first American in space, suborbital (source: official)
Female cries for help from space (source: Judica-Cordiglia)
Female cries for help from space (source: Judica-Cordiglia)
Virgil Grissom, second American in space, suborbital (source: official) 6 August 1961 Gherman Titov, Vostok 2, second Soviet in orbit (source: official) 21 February 1962 John Glenn, first American in orbit (source: official) 15 May 1961 Loss of Alexis Belokoniov (source: Judica-Cordiglia)
Virgil Grissom, second American in space, suborbital (source: official) 6 August 1961 Gherman Titov, Vostok 2, second Soviet in orbit (source: official) 21 February 1962 John Glenn, first American in orbit (source: official) 15 May 1961 Loss of Alexis Belokoniov (source: Judica-Cordiglia)
Hungarian István Nemere (Gagarin – a cosmic lie) of the true career of Yuri Gagarin, supposedly the first man in space.
Hungarian István Nemere (Gagarin – a cosmic lie) of the true career of Yuri Gagarin, supposedly the first man in space.
The closer you get to the object, the more it seems to recede into the distance.
The closer you get to the object, the more it seems to recede into the distance.
You find one of the most spectacular events in human history disappearing into a grey zone of information and disinformation.
You find one of the most spectacular events in human history disappearing into a grey zone of information and disinformation.
When Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia, paid a visit to the Crimea in 1787, the Russian prince Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin came up with an epoch-making invention: dummy villages to show the Empress how advanced and prosperous the region was.
When Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia, paid a visit to the Crimea in 1787, the Russian prince Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin came up with an epoch-making invention: dummy villages to show the Empress how advanced and prosperous the region was.
‘Potemkin’s Villages’
‘Potemkin’s Villages’
‘Vostok configuration myth’.
‘Vostok configuration myth’.
Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Baron Münchausen
Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Baron Münchausen
Wernher von Braun.
Von Braun’s official duties for the Army often took him to the West Coast to meet with Jupiter and Redstone contractors. After the meetings, he and Stuhlinger would go to the Disney studios where they would work into the morning hours with the artists and producers.68
For Man and the Moon Disney’s team took up their pliers and screwdrivers to construct parts of the space station and the moon ship in the studio, ‘including many of the details that convey the impression of a true-life adventure’.
If we are to believe the writer Peter Stephan Jungk, who knows a great deal about Disney, the landing on the moon was concocted by Disney and von Braun:
