The Soviet Union Secretly Sent Cosmonauts To The Moon Before The U.S.
This might be one of the craziest theories on our list of the strangest theories from the space race era. You cannot tell us that the Soviet Union would ever want to cover up this accomplishment. It made worldwide news when Yuri Gagarin went into space and came back alive. He was a national hero! The Soviets knew that the United States was working on a way to get to the moon with a relatively new space program. To this day, Russia still admits that we beat the Soviets into space. Why in the world would the Soviets want to cover up that their cosmonauts made it to the moon before the United States? This would be absolutely insane. It would be a massive win for them, and they’d avoid ever having to claim the U.S. beat them at something in the middle of the Cold War.