Mmm… there’s nothing scarier than the Soviet Space Program… wanting so badly to beat America to every milestone unconcerned with the value of the individual… just as many of ours died in horrible explosions but the Russians were so secretive it’s easy to imagine way worse things were happening like maybe they were even causing space disasters on purpose… in the 60s two Italians claimed to have eavesdropped on them with state-of-the-art radio equipment and overheard a nightmare… a female cosmonaut desperately trying to communicate with mission control “I’m hot,” she says. “Is that normal?” “I see flames,” she says. “Am I okay?” “I’ll be able to return,” she says, “right?” that’s when the transmission suddenly ends and it's left to your imagination... her floating into the blackness of space confused maybe on fire no one to help and the Soviets just shrugging and the Soviets just laughing and the Soviets just swooning with their lust for human suffering! we don’t know how credible this recording is it could be a hoax the USSR did unseal their records after the empire fell we probably know all their secrets now they were probably as human as you and me but man that Soviet Space Program spooks me good I watched several documentaries about it last weekend for some reason I wanted to feel that October 2017, Boulder, CO
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