[FPSPACE] Russian TV: US tried to prevent Gagarin flight

[Keith Gottschalk]

  This comes across as pretty routine nationalist propaganda, where
smears, conspiracy theories etc are churned out with as much proof as,
say, most claims in the US's National Enquirer.

- Keith

>>> Chris Jones <clj at panix.com> 11/30/08 8:49 PM >>>
James Oberg wrote:
> Does anyone have any clues about this Russian accusation of
> *a "US attempt to prevent the first orbital space flight, *
> *by Yuriy Gagarin in April 1961" ???*

> Moscow Channel One TV,  2008 November 25 20:50 UT 
[...]
> Later in the film, a US attempt to prevent the first orbital space 
> flight, by Yuriy Gagarin in April 1961, was alleged.*  

I wonder if this is someone misunderstanding a reference to the US
trying to launch the first man into space (possible if the extra
Mercury-Redstone test flight had not been ordered)?

Otherwise it's a pretty serious allegation.  Is there a thought that
we had someone in the Soviet Union in a position to affect launches
or spacecraft preparation?
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