Experts Now Say That the Soviets Covered Up the Fact They’d Left an Astronaut in Space

Wild with Joy

The report generated a buzz, though the Soviet Union contradicted those claims quickly. Then, Gagarin went into space, so that was the big story. Ogden focused on that and said that the country was wild with joy because of that trip, apparently forgetting about that first article.

Wild With Joy

Another Report

Ogden’s second article made up for the first. Could he have made a mistake initially and then save face by reporting on the trip by Gagarin? In actuality, someone else wrote the first article, using the name Vladimir Ilyushin as the cosmonaut in question.

Another Report