Paranoid Times
Suspicion and rumor greeted these Space Race stories, and that’s no surprise since the USSR and America were in a Cold War. Plus, the Soviets preferred to keep everything a secret, so it’s conceivable that such a situation was suppressed from the media.
Big Questions
Through the decades, people created conspiracy theories about the space program. Some thought the Soviets sent others to space and let them die. Could that have happened before Gagarin was successful?!
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