Re: Secret Soviet Space Losses

dumpster4@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Jan 27, 3:15 pm, behlin...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Jan 27, 6:11 pm, dumpst...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:



According to:
http://fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/2008/01/where-never-lark-or-eagle...
"As 40 years have passed since Gagarin's flight, new sensational
details of this event were disclosed: Gagarin was not the first man
to fly to space. Three Soviet pilots died in attempts to conquer
space before Gagarin's famous space flight, Mikhail Rudenko,
senior engineer-experimenter with Experimental Design Office
456 (located in Khimki, in the Moscow region) said on Thursday.
According to Rudenko, spacecraft with pilots Ledovskikh, Shaborin
and Mitkov at the controls were launched from the Kapustin Yar
cosmodrome (in the Astrakhan region) in 1957, 1958 and 1959.
"All three pilots died during the flights, and their names were never
officially published," Rudenko said."
Since the fall of the USSR, how many other Soviet space
disasters have come to light?
How do you that is a valid source?


Well, the article is quoting from Pravda:

http://english.pravda.ru/accidents/2001/04/12/3502.html

Why would Pravda fabricate a non-existent Soviet space disaster?

Pravda started as a CPSU propaganda rag and is now a tabloid rag. If there was an interim period where it was a responsible newspaper, it must have been very short. Today it is no more credible than the National Enquirer.
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