Hold on to your limbs and make sure your helmets are on tight - we're going to space! This week, Alex & Christie discuss the weird conspiracy theory around lost cosmonauts (also know as phantom cosmonauts). Was the Soviet Union trying to cover up their failed attempts to space? Were there recordings heard by two Italian brothers to verify this? Did Ivan and his dog leave earth because they heard 2020 was going to be trash? Tune in to find out! Need a distraction? We got you.
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Resources:
Encyclopedia Astronaut Astronautix website - http://www.astronautix.com/
Smithsonian article - “Ivan Ivanovich and the Persistent Lost Cosmonaut Conspiracy” - by Thomas Ellis
Aerospaceweb.org
Webarchive.org website – Science Fiction Convention in Seattle (1961) speech - by Robert Heinlein
Gadsden Times article - “Oberth Believes Astronauts Lost” - dated December 10th, 1959
Russia Beyond article - “Was Gagarin Really the First Man in Space?” By Nikolav Shevchenko – March 18th, 2020
Angelsbarcelona.com article: Sputnik, 1997 (http://angelsbarcelona.com/en/artists/joan-fontcuberta/projects/sputnik/105)
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