Why The USSR Had Plans To Land Spacecraft in The USA During Emergencies.

If soyuz had landed in the U.S. the crew would have been interned in prison as spies , the soyuz would have been seized for inspection

I am from Georgy Dimitrov homeland :)

I think both nations really realized how pointless the space race was at that time and figured out that neither nation could effectively utilize space as a way to deploy weapons and use it as an advantage over the other and holding astronauts doing tests with ant colonies and plants wasn’t worth the international drama of holding them as prisoners which they shouldn’t have to begin with, and figured instead of causing injury and hassle might as well just show the other the basics of the space craft so we can recover our people and property as fast as possible.

Does anyone know the source of the audio in the opening? I’ve been trying to find it for years with no luck.

we are all just humans in the end

Politics shall never escape Earth's gravity, nor survive outside Earth's atmosphere

Посадка корабля "Союз-5" в Европе разрешена из-за проблем с кораблем "Союз"

If a Soyuz spacecraft landed in the US they would have been treated like celebrities. I'm sure they'd be invited for supper. But... I'm sure the Soviets knew that would be the case.

That was unexpectedly informative, thanks!

Imagine if a Soyuz crew defected by landing in the USA.

Not for media release!

Amateur space craft tracking dude: well that's considering
The guy's boss: what?
Amateur space craft tracking dude: well sir, it looks like a soyuz is gonna land just west of here.
The guy's boss: call the national guard
Later:
Cosmonaut 1: Vadim why are there tanks outside?
Cosmonaut 2: I don't know Ivan, mayde it's because we land in America you idiot.

The Russians are coming, the Russians are coming......!!!! LOL!!!!!

I assume if they landed in another country the spacecraft would be heavily graffitied and the cosmonaut would taken to a embassy.

Many years ago a movie was made of this only it was a submarine off the cast of Maine, " The Russians are coming the Russians are coming!"

Practicalities trump politics. Love it!

Good research, very informative!

Sometimes fact is stranger then fiction. What a remarkable story !

Even in Times of discomfort with Each other people still recognized we are still human
Nice going ussr and now russia
I get why you left the iss
Because its getting unsafe and besides the usa is already having issues so choosing china is good
Just remind them to be careful with Large Uncontrolled orbits

Sounds like you said Vladimir shat a log

Do astronauts carry their passports with them in case they land in another country? Are they diplomatic passports?

This never happened - Soviets feared their cosmonauts would want to stay in USA instead of going back to happiest country in the world.

Nice touch, putting the captions in Russian

it is sad to see him putting some “cold war” style title for click and watch.

Loved it 😍

I'm curious about those water landing you show.

Shit, I should make sure I always have some good Russian vodka on hand incase some wayward Cosmonauts land near me.

Why not? Enough open space to not do too much damage and technologically advanced enough for a quick rescue and medical assistance.

What an extraordinary story! There's a movie script in there somewhere. Also here in Australia, a capsule could come down in the middle of nowhere and not be found for weeks. If at all!

Weren't the ussr on good terms? With the USA

Iowa not Idaho, big difference when looking for wide open space to land

Fascinating! Thank you!

I keep vodka on hand just in case they drop in unexpectedly.

How did I miss this?!

Instead, they landed on Gilligan’s Island.

I don't know if landing in Texas is such a great idea, you might want to reconsider that one.

ok, I'll google Passat Key

I had thoght they would land there army with soyus

I find this funny because I had friends who had a piece of a sputnik crash into the street in front of their house. Most Americans would be pretty polite if this happened.

imagine China was like like "During emergency China can drop boosters on USA"

Some nice history here 👍

This would make the plot of Smallville play out very differently.

I feel bad for the cosmonaut that would have to land in Texas during the Cold War 😂

In space, everybody is a (insert your prefered word)naut

What I like about this is that two of the spots were in Saskatchewan. It makes sense as we have some of the friendliest people around and fairly high chances of getting advanced medical care quickly. While having a near-zero chance of hitting anything but a cow. If it ever happened I'm fairly certain that this would be the talk of the town for 30 years, a monument and a town or two renamed.

Pretty sure two of those are Canada

USSR: comrades you will have to land in Brazil near Rio de Janeiro and it´s Carnival there but we might be able to bring you home safly

Cosmonauts: no no no no! safety 1st! we land in Rio then after 2 weeks we return home!

USSR: why 2 weeks?

Cosmonauts: because we will be too drunk to be found

We in Sweden don’t have a crewed space flight program but a cool domestic spaceport for large sounding rockets.