A Soviet Cosmonaut Once Pretended To Land On The Moon To Troll NASA

Today in 1968, the Soviet Union was launching the Zond 5 mission, orbiting the moon. But on cosmanaut, knowing the US would be listening, decided to pretend he’d landed on the moon's surface. Plus: a woman in California got a call from an animal shelter saying they had her cat - except that her cat had gone missing nine years earlier. The First Soviet Cosmonaut Team by Colin Burgess and Rex Hall (via Google Books) Lost cat found in Idaho 9 years after wandering away from California home (Washington Post) Keep this show blasting off as a backer on Patreon