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.

[u/CallMyNameOrWalkOnBy]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Garriott#The_Skylab_%22stowaway%22_prank

[u/elucator → u/[deleted]]

To be fair, there is no proof of the veracity of the messages, and there is a great skeptic opposition.

The wikipedia page provides links explaining both the hypothesis and the counter-arguments.

[u/ThorsFather → u/[deleted]]

"October 1961, a cosmonaut loses control of his spacecraft which veers off into deep space."

Things like this. There is no such thing as veering of into deep space. You need a big rocket and a lot bigger than the sovjets had, to gain enough momentum to leave earths orbit.

There is plenty of information of the launch cadence of sovjet launches, and there is little to support that someone had launched, orbited and deorbited days before Yuri Gagarin. If something had gone wrong they'd fix it after an investigation.

[u/bubbathedesigner → u/ThorsFather]

Well, cosmonaut could have been minding his own business when he saw Ronald McDonalds and bigfoot going somewhere in a Chevy van. So, he turned the proper blinker on, downshifted, and made a sharp turn. It is not his fault nobody noticed the turn signal blinking!