Among the conspiracy theorists who question many facts that seem obvious to others, there are many who doubt the reality of Gagarin's flight into space. There is ample evidence for this. For example, many people know that the footage of him getting into the rocket was a late production, which was shot for a pretty picture. At the actual launch, there was no Western or Soviet media. There are many questions in this story, let's try to figure it out.
Secret documents
One of the secrets associated with Gagarin's space flight is that all documents related to this are still classified. It is not clear why this is being done, because there have been no "secret developments" left since 1961. Everything has already become common knowledge or has long been outdated.
Therefore, willy-nilly, questions arise: what is so special and mysterious in these documents that they have to be hidden for many decades.
Another argument used by supporters of the conspiracy theory is that there weren't even Soviet journalists at the launch site.
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The world learned about the first manned flight into space from a TASS report. The source used by the news agency is unknown. Apparently, it was a directive issued by the government or the KGB.
Rocket landing reconstruction
If you remember how you saw newsreel footage in which Yuri Gagarin sits in a rocket, then you will have to be disappointed. All this is a later reconstruction, the shooting was carried out a few days after the first cosmonaut returned to Earth. At the same time, they filmed Korolev giving orders by radio.
The daughter of the cosmonaut Elena spoke about this. Of course, this is not proof that there was no flight. It is a common practice when some important shots are separately re-shot in good light, sometimes even with several takes. However, this raises additional questions.
In addition, it is not clear where then the real personnel of dispatch and pre-flight training of the pilot. Let it be of poor quality, filmed not by a professional cameraman, but by a state security officer, but they should be.
It turns out that they either do not exist, or something is imprinted on them that is very different from the official version, therefore they are not published.
Gagarin did not begin to photograph the earth from space
Another oddity is that Gagarin had neither a camera nor a camera with him to capture the planet from a rocket.
He had a chance to be the first in the world to take such unique pictures, but he did not use it. Why the Soviet leadership did not want to present such irrefutable evidence to the whole world is also unclear.
Even if we assume that in zero gravity Gagarin did not have the opportunity to fix himself in front of the window, it is not clear why they did not make some kind of camera on the control, at least with the help of a cable, in order to get a unique picture.
Strange landing
As you know, Gagarin landed outside the descent vehicle by parachute. This is the official version. According to her, he ejected at an altitude of 7 km.
The designers argued that this option was the safest, since the landing in the descent vehicle had not yet been worked out and tested at that time.
At the same time, it should be admitted that such a landing is much easier to fake. Theoretically, Gagarin could simply jump out of the plane with a parachute.
The very process of his landing was also not seen or filmed. It is known that he landed on the ground in the Saratov region, not far from the military unit. An hour and a half later, two officers found him.
Cosmonaut number zero
It is known that before sending Gagarin into space, several test launches were carried out. They started back in the late 1950s. Many ended in failure. The rockets either collapsed, having risen to a certain height, or they exploded at the start.
It is officially known about the death of the pilot Ledovskikh, which occurred at the Kapustin Yar missile range in 1957.
There is information that in 1960, when the main stage of the rocket failed, cosmonaut Pyotr Dolgov died.
In February 1961, just a couple of months before Gagarin's flight, some mysterious Soviet "satellite" for some time broadcast the beating of a human heart through one of the telemetry channels.
After a while, the frequency changed, and after that it stopped listening altogether. There is still no clear and official explanation for what it was.
Moreover, a strange incident happened already in April. Under strange circumstances, one of the members of the cosmonaut corps, pilot Ilyushin, died. According to the official version, he crashed in a car.
However, it is believed that he was "astronaut number zero." Allegedly, he managed to enter Earth's orbit, make a revolution around the planet, but on his return he died due to an unforeseen accident.
Instead of a conclusion
In conclusion, one more oddity should be noted associated with Gagarin's flight into space.
When it took place, the whole world and Soviet citizens were faced with a fait accompli: the Soviet pilot had been in space.
At the same time, no one informed about the flight in advance. Nothing was specifically known about the fact that the USSR was going to send the first man into interstellar space.
Perhaps they were afraid that something might go wrong or they assumed the death of the first cosmonaut, which was not allowed. And especially to give the opportunity to transmit this information to Western media.
All this makes supporters of conspiracy theories doubt that Gagarin's flight took place at all.
Author: tgorlopeev