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The Lost Cosmonauts or Phantom Cosmonauts are subjects of a conspiracy theory, which alleges that Soviet and Russian space authorities have concealed the deaths of some cosmonauts in outer space. Proponents of the Lost Cosmonauts theory argue that the Soviet Union attempted to launch human spaceflights before Yuri Gagarin's first spaceflight ...
As of December 2024, in-flight accidents have killed 15 astronauts and 4 cosmonauts in five separate incidents. [2] Three of the flights had flown above the Kármán line (edge of space), and one was intended to do so.
Soyuz 11 successfully docked with Salyut 1 on 7 June 1971 and the cosmonauts remained on board for 22 days, setting space endurance records that would hold until the American Skylab 2 mission in May and June 1973. [9]
By the time that the twelfth cosmonaut (Georgy Beregovoy) flew in 1968, Komarov and Gagarin were both dead. A Soviet space skafander in the Museum of Cosmonautics , Moscow This is a list of cosmonauts who have taken part in the missions of the Soviet space program and the Russian Federal Space Agency , including ethnic Russians and people of ...
It was the second time the Russian cosmonauts have had to cancel the spacewalk.
The two brothers The brothers reported that they had recorded messages from secret missions during the Soviet Vostok program in the early 1960s.. The Judica-Cordiglia brothers were two Italian former amateur radio operators who made audio recordings which are often regarded as evidence by supporters of the conspiracy theory that the Soviet space program covered up cosmonaut deaths in the 1960s ...
Cosmonaut biography for Valentin Bondarenko; Yaroslav Golovanov, "Cosmonaut No. 1" (in Russian) James Oberg, "Dead Cosmonauts", chapter 10 of Uncovering Soviet Disasters, (Random House, New York, 1988) contains a detailed account of his attempts to uncover the facts concerning actual and alleged deaths in the Soviet space program.
A 59-year-old Russian cosmonaut has become the first person to spend 1,000 days in space, Russian space agency Roscosmos said Wednesday. Oleg Kononenko achieved the milestone on Tuesday, having ...