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Forum:	Soviet - Russian Space
Topic:	Debunking the myth Gagarin was not first

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Your Reply: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	[QUOTE]Originally posted by Rusty B: [B]From contemporary newspaper sources: [URL=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=_IRFAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ybwMAAAAIBAJ&dq=astronaut&pg=2443%2C5102286]Red Astronaut Reported Lost[/URL] Nuernberg, Germany (Associated Press) Telegraph Herald newspaper Dec 14, 1959. <BLOCKQUOTE>[i]...Prof. Hermann Oberth was commenting on reports distributed by the Italian news agency Continentale that the Soviet Union had made four futile attempts to get a human being into space. "I know from American intelligence reports that one attempt at the end of 1957 or beginning of 1958 failed." said the 66 - year old former member of the U.S. Army's missile program at Huntsville, Ala. "I believe the Russians have made several other attempts."[/i]</BLOCKQUOTE> With noted scientists making statements like this, it's no wonder some people believed the rumors.[/B][/QUOTE]
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