A Secret Pioneer
Gossip was spreading already about how Yuri Gagarin prepared for the journey into space. One rumor claimed that he wasn’t the first person ever to go into orbit. Someone else in that country had done it a week prior!
The Secret Pioneer
The First Man in Space
The Daily Walker, a British communist newspaper, reported the alleged mission, titling the story “The First Man in Space.” Dennis Ogden claimed that a test pilot’s son was the cosmonaut. Though he survived, he was in poor health.
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The First Man To Go To Space
