Donal Cozzie
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This is a really interesting, saddening yet not at all outlandish theory I've come across lately.Basically it implies that the Soviets, ina desperate attempt to one up the US, tried several failed space missions involving the deaths of several cosmonauts, then totally covered up the evidence to prevent embarrassment.
If these are one day proven, then it will be incredibly saddening to hear, just imagine suffering such a fate.
Anyway, here's the just of the theory
And this
Source: http://www.cracked.com/article_19142_5-soviet-space-programs-that-prove-russia-was-insane.html
If these are one day proven, then it will be incredibly saddening to hear, just imagine suffering such a fate.
Anyway, here's the just of the theory
And this
While the Soviets hit the ground running in the space race, we later found out that their actual space program was a bit of a **** show. However, they did have one advantage on their side; their ability to cover up every single failure and destroy all evidence of incompetence, which is why no one can actually prove what we're about to tell you.
In 1959 a German scientist claimed at least four Soviet cosmonauts had already died between the years 1957 and 1959. According to Hermann Oberth, the Soviets were converting rockets to manned spaceships, and he would know, because he was working with NASA and had seen the intelligence to prove it. Plus, a high ranking Czech official further corroborated the story when he also leaked information that unofficial launches killed a few cosmonauts.
But it wasn't until two Italian brothers with a knack for radio got in the act that the story really gained some ground. After cobbling together an improvised listening system comprised of scavenged equipment and sheer audacity, Achilles and Giovanni Battista Judica-Cordiglia started picking up some creepy ****. Specifically, an SOS signal in Morse Code. And the dying gasps and fading heartbeat of a cosmonaut whose signal was getting farther and farther away from Earth. And a Russian woman who said:
Transmission begins now. Forty-one. Yes, I feel hot. I feel hot, it's all... it's all hot. I can see a flame! I can see a flame! I can see a flame! Thirty-two... thirty-two. Am I going to crash? Yes, yes I feel hot... I am listening, I feel hot, I will re-enter. I'm hot!
Just as signs of screaming began, the transmission was cut off. And then there was the couple who desperately pleaded for help:
Conditions growing worse. Why don't you answer? . . . we are going slower . . . the world will never know about us...
None of the transmissions were acknowledged by the Soviets, but the KGB began taking a hearty interest in the brothers, nevertheless. And then, as if it wasn't creepy enough that two Italian guys were recording the tortured last cries of phantom space travelers, there was the whole matter of the cosmonauts who mysteriously disappeared from official pictures.
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Later we learned that one of the airbrushed cosmonauts was cut from official pictures and all records after suffering a horrific death by fire on the launchpad. Another was expunged because he was a drunk brawler who eventually committed suicide. As for the rest, we'll never know.
Source: http://www.cracked.com/article_19142_5-soviet-space-programs-that-prove-russia-was-insane.html
