Soviet space program

The Files

• The Phantom Cosmonauts — The state system alleged to have erased failed crewed launches.
• The Soviet Venera Hoax — Institution alleged to have staged or exaggerated Venus achievements for prestige.
• The Phobos 2 Attack (1989) — Operator of the Phobos mission and source of the mission’s official technical account.
• Soviet Lunik Hoax — Carried out the Luna series under a system of tight secrecy and political messaging.
• The Sputnik Code — Presented as the source of the allegedly engineered signal.
• The Sputnik and the Global Eavesdropping — The launching system whose success generated the technological shock behind the theory.
• The Yuri Gagarin Hoax — Program accused in the theory of suppressing earlier human missions.
• The Lost Cosmonauts (The Judica-Cordiglia Theory) — The secretive state program whose opacity gave rise to the Lost Cosmonauts narrative.

Connected Figures & Organizations

• Nikita Khrushchev · 2 shared
• Achille Judica-Cordiglia · 2 shared
• Giovanni Battista Judica-Cordiglia · 2 shared
• Yuri Gagarin · 2 shared
• Sergei Korolev · 2 shared
• Dwight D. Eisenhower · 1 shared
• Soviet propaganda apparatus · 1 shared
• Torre Bert listening station · 1 shared
• Western media outlets · 1 shared
• Cold War space-race audiences · 1 shared
• Soviet Venera program · 1 shared
• European Space Agency (ESA) · 1 shared

Timeline

1. 1957The Sputnik Code
2. 1957The Sputnik and the Global Eavesdropping
3. 1959Soviet Lunik Hoax
4. 1960The Phantom Cosmonauts
5. 1960The Lost Cosmonauts (The Judica-Cordiglia Theory)
6. 1961The Yuri Gagarin Hoax
7. 1967The Soviet Venera Hoax
8. 1988The Phobos 2 Attack (1989)