Thread: The Truth behind the moon landings.

Originally Posted by Loy Toy

Of course 54 years ago.

Shit I am not sure now whether JG was the first man to orbit the earth.

I have read it was a Russian or a monkey!

Im sure that a monkey wasnt the first man to orbit the Earth , although he was probably the first monkey to do so

Originally Posted by Begbie

Yuri Gagarin as the first to orbit the earth.

And would have been the first human to die doing so, if it wasn't for Vladimir Kamarov.


This is what was left of him.

There's interesting reading on the 'alleged' lost cosmonauts of the space race.


Unlike the US, the USSR was launching and conducting their space program in private.


*spolier alert*

There's a few currently up there floating through space in their coffin for the next few millennia.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

I'm still pretty sure it was Lionel Jeffries.

Maybe mixing it up with Lionel Ritchie?

He was to first to walk on the ceiling.

Oh, what a feeling that was.

John Glenn never made it to he moon!

Originally Posted by Begbie

Yuri Gagarin as the first to orbit the earth.

A Russian dog Laika...

Originally Posted by james777

John Glenn never made it to he moon!

Say what?

Never touched the moon...

Originally Posted by Loy Toy

I remember watching John Glenn walking on the moon when I was a kid in school and cherish that moment.

Proof of your fantastic memory.