The Lost Cosmonauts theory alleges that the Soviet Union launched humans into space before Yuri Gagarin's 1961 flight — and that the cosmonauts onboard died. The strongest piece of supposed evidence came from Italian brothers Achille and Giovanni Battista Judica-Cordiglia, amateur radio operators in Turin who claimed to have intercepted transmissions from doomed Soviet spacecraft between 1960 and 1964. — Read the rest The post Two Italian brothers claimed to have recorded dying Soviet cosmonauts that Moscow erased from history appeared first on Boing Boing.

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