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Sashadroogie · Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2012 6:14 pm Post subject:

Ah, I get you now. No worries. I should have written it a little more clearly. Or written it before my lunchtime bottle. Amounts to much the same thing, hic!

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

There are still people who insist that the whole thing was a fake - filmed by Disney.

spiral78 · Joined: 05 Apr 2004 Posts: 11534 Location: On a Short Leash

Yes, there are always a few weirdos on the fringes of every event.

Neil Armstrong remains a hero, as do his Comrades on the other side of the world.

johnslat · Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2012 7:41 pm Post subject:

Desr Sasha,

" . . . but there was nothing about his launch in Soviet press beforehand, or in international press either. Heck, his own family didn't even know he was in the space programme."

In case things didn't go as planned, do you think?

Regards,
John

Sashadroogie · Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2012 5:42 am Post subject:

Dear Johnslat

That was my whole point. The rumour is that there were previous attempts to launch a man into space, but that the cosmonaut didn't survive. Not much propaganda value there. So, according to this story, Yuri was, more correctly, the first man to come back from space alive and well enough to be massively photographed.

'Tis but a rumour, though... hic!