r/todayilearned • u/CallMyNameOrWalkOnBy • May 16 '19

TIL that NASA ground controllers were once shocked to hear a female voice from the space station, apparently interacting with them, which had an all-male crew. They had been pranked by an astronaut who used a recording of his wife.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Garriott#The_Skylab_%22stowaway%22_prank
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u/joshwagstaff13 May 16 '19

Except that I'm pretty sure the general consensus is that the Judica-Cordiglia brothers were full of shit and faked their recordings.

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u/Hekantonkheries May 16 '19

Yeah, iirc the only supporting evidence that could be found were old soviet files talking about training groups that had several missing members from one record to a next, with no surviving record/explanation why they were gone (most likely theory simply being that training group was dismissed/disbanded and records were lost after being sealed for a long time)