A Dream Like Mine

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    lightthiscandle:

    KGB Dwarf (-1971) Russian phantom cosmonaut. Moscow urban legend of 1970: diminutive robot Lunokhod crawler was actually driven by a midget KGB agent on a one-way suicide mission to the lunar surface.

    The feat of remotely driving the unmanned Lunokhod lunar rover around the lunar surface must have seemed a bit beyond Soviet technology for some Muscovites. So an urban legend was put about that the diminutive Lunokhod was actually driven by a midget KGB agent on a one-way suicide mission to the lunar surface. How sufficient provisions were packed into the tiny rover during its eleven month mission was not explained…

    KGB Dwarf, NEVER FORGET

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      Their whole section on fictional astronauts is great, the dead-serious articles on the I Dream of Jeannie characters...
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      There’s a book called Omon Ra by Viktor Pelevin about a similar situation. The Russians don’t have the technology for an...
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