The first man in space!

On April 12, 1961, the Soviet cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, was ‘officially’ the first man into ‘outer space’. But did Gagarin really go into space?

- John Hamer

A Provable Fraud

■Kennedy strangely complicit

■Gagarin's story full of holes

■Soviet Union forced to save face

U.S. President John F. Kennedy warmly congratulated Russian leader, Nikita Khrushchev for their achievement, but the fact that JFK did not contest this exploit was seen by the whole world as the confirmation that Gagarin's exploits were fact.

Yet, some days later, articles appeared in several American newspapers which were describing his so-called 'space-flight' as a hoax and explaining why it was not credible. Some politicians urged Kennedy not to accept Gagarin's 'achievement' without proof from the Russians - which they never provided.

During the entire flight, monitored by NASA, Gagarin was announcing his progress on the flight too early which strongly suggests that his voice was coming from a recording which also explains the de-synchronisation between his voice and the corresponding events.

Gagarin said that he was flying over South America only fifteen minutes after he departed, when he needed at least forty-five to get there.

He also stated he could distinctly see Russian farms and meadows when he was at an altitude of 200 miles, which, at that height, would have been impossible. Gagarin also said he could see the Earth through his porthole when the chief of the Russian program said in a meeting that his cabin had no portholes, only tiny slits.

And, instead of landing inside his space cabin, he landed by parachute, at the exact spot where he had done his parachute training, while his 'space-ship', Vostokl, was crashing far away and seriously damaged.