Tag: judica cordiglia brothers
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space trackers: judica cordiglia bros.
A memorial weekend italiano extraterrestre stravaganza provided for your pleasure! Let’s go Space Truckin’. First, the amazing Judica Cordiglia brothers who tracked radio transmissions of early space missions. In the late fifties, Achille and Giovanni set up an amateur tracking station just outside Turin, Italy in a former convalescent home at a place they called…
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lost cosmonauts: airbrushed from memory
Grigoriy Nelyubov’s disappearance from the photo (pictured), and similar strokes, brought suspicion on the Soviet space program. The mysterious deletions also stoked curiosity about the ultimate fates of these airbrushed souls! Nelyubov, a 1963 drunken brawl dismissed him from the program and banishment to Siberia, is referred to as a “suicide by train” in 1966…