January 20, 2008

Lost Cosmonauts

Olav Phillips returned to the show to discuss the secret Soviet space program and the Lost Cosmonauts. In 1961, The Judica-Cordiglia brothers, after setting up a listening post which probed the cosmos and successfully tracked all the early american and soviet unmanned satellites, heard the beat of a failing heart and the last gasping breaths of a dying cosmonaut weeks before Yuri Gagarin's epic space flight. It is believed that the Soviets tried to launch 2 men in to outer space before Gargarin.