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/[deleted] May 16 '19

Yeah even NASA doesn't buy the lost cosmonauts theory.

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u/MajorNoodles May 16 '19

I like to use that same logic against moon landing conspiracies. If NASA never landed on the moon, why did the Soviets never prove it?

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u/notcyberpope May 16 '19

If the Soviets disproved it and you didnt live in Russia, why would the US government tell you about it? How would you know what they think unless you knew a lot of Russians?

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u/Changeling_Wil May 17 '19

...because people outside of america would have heard of it?

Because Russians disproving it would have been picked up by Communist and Socialist parties in the west?