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5 Soviet Space Photos Hiding Mysteries They Tried to Bury

Go to http://buyraycon.com/dark5open to get 20% off sitewide. Thanks to Raycon for sponsoring! The parachute opened perfectly. Every system worked. Yet Colonel Pyotr Dolgov was already dead. His body spent thirty-eight minutes drifting down through the upper atmosphere, a ghost returning from the edge of space. But some say Dolgov had died two years earlier—in October 1960, aboard a failed orbital space flight that never appeared in Soviet records. The rumor feeds on photos that look like evidence: Dolgov strapped into a Vostok-style ejection seat during secret tests, then later sealed inside a bulbous “goldfish-bowl” helmet, climbing toward a craft that looked suspiciously like a spacecraft. The truth might be just as strange...