Gagarin’s Falsified Flight RecordOn April 12, 1961 (51 years ago today), the world met Yuri Gagarin, a former Soviet Air Force pilot who shot from obscurity to international fame after making one full orbit around the Earth in his Vostok 1 spacecraft.But the mission records the Soviet Union submitted to international authorities to secure Gagarin’s place as the first man in space present a very different mission. Specifically, his landing was deliberately falsified. During the year, lies about the Vostok landing system called into question whether or not Vostok 1 deserved its place as history’s first spaceflight at all. keep reading

Gagarin’s Falsified Flight Record

On April 12, 1961 (51 years ago today), the world met Yuri Gagarin, a former Soviet Air Force pilot who shot from obscurity to international fame after making one full orbit around the Earth in his Vostok 1 spacecraft.

But the mission records the Soviet Union submitted to international authorities to secure Gagarin’s place as the first man in space present a very different mission. Specifically, his landing was deliberately falsified. During the year, lies about the Vostok landing system called into question whether or not Vostok 1 deserved its place as history’s first spaceflight at all.

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    Cool. 40 year cold war for nothing.
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    He was still The First.
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    I LOVE everything about the Space Race. So amazing!
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