In 2020, many Russian media reported that the Florida District Court recognized the flight of Yuri Gagarin for a fake. The first person in space space was declared astronaut John Glenn. We checked whether this is so.

The text, which bypassed the Russian media in October 2020, had approximately the following view:

“The County Court of Florida recognized Gagarin’s flight into space by the mystification of the Russian film studio. As a result, American John Glenn was the first person in space de jure. American bloggers fought for this decision, who allegedly collected evidence that the Russians took the flight of the first person into space on the film.

It's funny, but earlier the Americans were accused of landing on the moon of the film supply. Then the authors of the theory of Hollywood participation compared the shadows in the photographs of the landing and tried to expose NASA in the smallest detail. As for the current judicial precedent, he is unlikely to affect historical truth.

The American court granted the lawsuit of Woodrow Bakinsky to recognize astronaut John Glenn the first person in space. The judge recognized the evidence convincing in favor of this decision. It is noteworthy that among the evidence - the mystification of the personality of Yuri Gagarin. American bloggers believe that his role was played by the theater actor Grigory Rastorguev. And the "flight" itself took place in the pavilion of the Odessa film studio.

The author of the lawsuit believes that he managed to restore justice and the Russians are obliged to confess to deception. There have been no reactions from Russia to these statements and the court decision. ”

In April 2021, this information was present on Russian resources such as sites "Express Gazeta", Society "Tsargrad", the aggregator "Satellite". It was also placed on the portal Rambler, legal forum 9111.ru And in a number of other publications.

In September 2020, even before the above sources, the news was distributed by the Bulgarian branch of the famous portal Newsbeezer With link On one of the local media. But the search for sources of sensational information in overseas media is inconclusive: nothing like this was published in the United States. The absurdity of the information is enhanced by the fact that John Glenn did not even consider even the first American astronaut - at one time he was ahead of Alan Shepard and Virgil Gris. True, Glenn owns a number of other records: in particular, he became the first American, committed orbital flight (the previous two were suborbitic), and in 1998, at the age of 77, he decided to fly into space again and still headed by a large margin List of the oldest astronauts.

As for the source of the message, they became the famous satirical site of Panorama again April 16, 2020, shortly after the celebration of Cosmonautics Day. Three days earlier, April 13, the name of Woodrow Bakinsky appeared in another "news" Publications - then it was also about unofficial claims regarding Gagarin's flight.

The very appearance of satirical news, apparently, was not accidental. April 12, 2020, the US State Department posted on his Russian -speaking Facebook page message The next content: "59 years ago, the first flight of a person into space was made." What the Russian Foreign Ministry answered statement: “We remind colleagues from the US State Department that the first person in space was the Soviet astronaut, his name is Yuri Alekseevich Gagarin. Do not mention this is misinformation and vile intake of the era of post -truths. ” This reaction could well become a source of fantasy of the authors of Panorama.