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Discover The Unexplained - Season 2 - Episode: 3 - The Mystery Of The Lost Cosmonauts (Audio) · Mystery Archives Episodes

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  The day man went into space could be said to be a modern
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  myth, a legend that arises to meet the spirit of the age in
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  which it is born. But what could be some of the
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  Grim realities behind the exploration of the cosmic void.
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  Speculation has long existed that early experimental flights
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  claimed, the lives of more than a few humans.
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  The names of which have never graced headlines.
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  Who were these unknown people? Who Lost to the dangers of
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  venturing into the heavens today, we will be discovering
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  the Unexplained and investigating the story of the
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  lost cosmonauts here on mystery archives.
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  On October 4th 1957 the Soviet Union launched history's.
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  First artificial satellite known as Sputnik its launch sparked.
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  The Inferno that was known as the Space Race.
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  The Cold War heated up as the United States and the Soviet
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  Union rushed to see who could conquer the New Frontier first.
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  Russia, once again, scored a win, when Yuri Gagarin became
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  the first man in space and 1961, but was he truly the first or
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  merely the first to survive the trip?
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  In 1959, a Russian magazine published information and photos
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  of three men parachuting. One of the men was killed when
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  his suit depressurized after hitting his head, another
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  vanished and no information on the third man was ever found.
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  It was speculated that the men were testing high altitude
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  equipment, a precursor to space exploration technology.
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  In 1960, a Soviet rocket ignited on the launch pad and killed.
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  At least 78 people that same year, science fiction, author,
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  Robert Heinlein claimed that while traveling in the USSR, he
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  met with army Cadets that said that there had recently been a
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  space launch the capsule korabl Sputnik 1 suffered a mechanical
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  failure when the guidance system steered it off course.
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  As a result, it was stranded in orbit around her The general
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  statement on behalf of the Soviets was that the capsule was
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  part of an unmanned test flight. However, according to henlon,
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  there may have been a cosmonaut inside in the 1960s, a Keel and
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  his brother Giovanni. Battista released audio
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  recordings. They had allegedly captured from
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  Secret, Soviet flights One. Recording seemed to play the
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  sounds of a suffocating cosmonaut.
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  Listening to the static, the brothers, determined that
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  another recording was an SOS moving away from Earth.
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  One of the more famous and controversial recordings.
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  Is that of a female Cosmonaut panicking before she apparently
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  was killed upon re-entry, into the Earth's atmosphere?
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  In total, the brothers release nine recordings over the course
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  of four years. Each capturing a different
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  scenario of cosmonauts participating in space, flights
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  that either succeeded or failed these audio recordings.
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  However, while being one of the main pieces of evidence cited
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  for the lost cosmonauts, have long been claimed to be a hoax.
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  One objection is the fact that the female cosmonauts spoke
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  extremely bad Russian, and at the brothers sisters, were
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  learning Russian at the time, which would have made her a more
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  than likely candidate to be the voice heard on the tape.
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  Another problem is that in spite of Highly sophisticated radio,
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  surveillance stations in Europe at the time somehow.
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  The brothers, were the only ones who managed to capture this
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  extremely valuable information about Soviet space operations.
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  Being said, these recordings are only a small piece of the puzzle
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  as more high-profile flights occurred which are more
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  difficult to dismiss. Vladimir.
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  I lie usually was among the most esteemed and venerated men in
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  the Soviet Union during the 1960s son of the Soviet aircraft
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  designer. Sergei a lesion Vladimir was
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  among the most distinguished of Soviet test pilots.
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  In 1959 he said the world altitude record when he reached
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  30,000 meters in his silky 09 jet fighter in 1960.
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  He received the hero of the Soviet Union medal for his high
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  altitude and high speed test flights.
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  Initially Vladimir was not a member of the Cosmonaut Corps
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  when they were founded in 1959. Focusing more on gaining the
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  world altitude record. He soon realized that any record
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  of his would be crushed. This achievement of reaching the
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  Earth's orbit possibly as a result of his father's political
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  influence. Vladimir was allowed to join.
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  The original cosmonauts a year after the group was formed after
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  an intensive training program, he became the most talented
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  cosmonauts of the group 1961 photos show, Vladimir
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  undergoing, space flight training, one of his colleagues
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  had been launched into space and secret on February, the 2nd of
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  1961. But something went horribly
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  wrong the early stages of the flight which rendered the pilot
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  unconscious unable to return to the Earth until the 17th orbit
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  in order to avoid a forced landing on foreign soil, the
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  Cosmonaut lost his life in orbit.
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  Vladimir was scheduled for the following flight with the fault
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  that cost his fellow Cosmonaut, his life, having seemingly been
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  fixed Vladimir boarded the rossio and launched into orbit
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  on April 17th of 1961. According to reports something,
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  again, went wrong for completing his first orbit, Vladimir lost
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  Consciousness and stopped responding to radio calls from
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  Mission Control. Do to Vladimir's high-profile an
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  The Landing was attempted on the third orbit, the capsule
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  touchdown in China, the normal process for vostok Landings
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  involved. Injecting the pilot from the
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  capsule at 20,000 feet with the pilot touching down with the
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  parachute unfortunately. Since Vladimir was unconscious,
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  he was unable to eject and sustained.
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  Serious injuries Rhythm, see hit the ground.
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  He was heard but alive gaining. The honor of being the first man
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  to return alive from Corbin. The Chinese authorities
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  hospitalized Vladimir and kept him in prison as a foreign
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  intelligence agent for over a year.
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  As a result of this word lead to that a manned space flight was
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  ongoing and in the Soviets decided to launch the backup
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  pilot. Yuri, Gagarin mere days later on
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  April, the 12th. This historic Mission almost
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  ended in tragedy at the time of deorbiting.
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  The Descent capsule failed to disconnect from the service
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  module. Luckily for Gary, the landing
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  craft suddenly separated the maneuver occurred, nearly
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  Minutes after the intended time which led to Yuri Landing in a
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  remote area away from recovery teams.
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  Vladimir would eventually return to the USSR where he continued
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  his career, he would retire as a general of the Soviet Air Force
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  but not everyone was so lucky. As The Echoes of rocket
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  launches, and space Communications reverberate into
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  silence, it's difficult to discern fact, from fiction, the
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  line between myth and history can often become blurry and the
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  space race is no different. Many researchers have asserted
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  that. The supposed lost cosmonauts,
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  are nothing more than speculation and rumor with no
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  basis in reality in the 1980s, American journalist, James oberg
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  Work research space disasters in the USSR.
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  He found no evidence to support these theories since 1990 much
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  previously restricted information has become available
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  to the public Mark. Waid editor of the website
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  encyclopedia astronautica said that the entire early history of
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  the Soviet manned space program has been Declassified and we
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  have piles of Memoirs of cosmonauts Engineers Etc, who
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  participated Know who was in the original Cosmonaut team, who
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  never flew was dismissed or was killed and ground tests.
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  I'll ution was not one of. In spite of this, there is
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  indeed confirmed evidence of the USSR covering up the death of a
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  cosmonaut by the name of Valentin.
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  Barda Nico. It was March 23rd of 1961, and
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  Valentin was on the 10th day of a 15-day endurance.
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  Experiment in the low pressure altitude chamber.
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  At The Institute of biomedical problems and Moscow, the
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  chamber's atmosphere was at at least fifty percent oxygen
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  Valentin, had finished his work for the day and removed the
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  biosensor from his body. While washing his skin with
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  alcohol soaked cotton balls. A discarded cotton ball landed
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  on an electric hot plate which he had been using to brew tea,
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  the ball ignited and Valentin, struggled to smother the fire
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  with his wool coveralls which burst into In the oxygen-rich
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  air, due to the pressure difference, they took a doctor
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  half an hour to open the chamber door Valentin, suffered
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  third-degree Burns. All over his body Yuri Gagarin
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  spent several hours at the hospital at the Death.
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  Watch of the officer Valentin would die of shock, 16 hours
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  later. Photographs of the original
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  cosmonauts, would later be doctored in an attempt to erase
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  his presence from history. A failed experiment that USSR
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  could not afford to let into the public Consciousness in 1971.
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  The crew of the Apollo 15, placed a plaque on the moon
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  dedicated to the Fallen astronauts.
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  Ballantine's name was not among Space is fascinated mankind
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  since the days of the Cold War. A frontier of mystery danger,
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  and Beauty captivating, the minds of past and present, but
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  it is easy to forget the pile of bones that enabled us to reach
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  the Stars. Many of the bones belong to
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  people with homes families and names that in some cases might
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  never have been remembered, their deaths were tragic.
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  The ultimately the legend of the Lost cosmonauts, Birds bright as
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  a rocket launching into the Eternal heavens.
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  So what do you think of the loss cosmonauts?
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  Did the Soviets really send people to their deaths and erase
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  all the evidence of what happened or are these all just
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  aging remnants of the Cold War rumor.
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  Let me know down in the comments below.
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  It really helps us out when you do.
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  Until next time, this has been Cody here with mystery archives.
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  Take care. So what do you think of the loss
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  cosmonauts? Did the Soviets really send
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  people to their deaths and erase all the evidence of what
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  happened or are these all just aging remnants of the Cold War
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  rumor. Let me know down in the comments
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  below. Don't forget to like this video
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  do. Until next time, this has been
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