[Atompunk] the lost cosmonaut in space

[Ross Payton]

http://www.forteantimes.com/features/articles/1302/lost_in_space.html
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*There are those who believe that somewhere in the vast blackness of space,
about nine billion miles from the Sun, the first human is about to cross the
boundary of our Solar System into interstellar space. His body, perfectly
preserved, is frozen at –270 degrees C (–454ºF); his tiny capsule has been
silently sailing away from the Earth at 18,000 mph (29,000km/h) for the last
45 years. He is the original lost cosmonaut, whose rocket went up and,
instead of coming back down, just kept on going.
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*It is the ultimate in Cold War legends: that at the dawn of the Space Age,
in the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, the Soviet Union had two space
programmes, one a public programme, the other a ‘black’ one, in which far
more daring and sometimes downright suicidal missions were attempted. It was
assumed that Russia’s Black Ops, if they existed at all, would remain secret
forever.
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*The ‘Lost Cosmonauts’ debate has been reawakened thanks to a new
investigation into the efforts of two ingenious, radio-mad young Italian
brothers who, starting in 1957, hacked into both Russia’s and NASA’s space
programmes – so effect­ively that the Russians, it seems, may have wanted
them dead. *



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Ross Payton
Raillery: A Comedy video podcast
http://www.raillery.tv
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