Soyuz 2 (russian: Союз 2, Union 2) was an uncrewed

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family intended to be the target of a docking maneuver by the crewed Soyuz 3 spacecraft. It was intended to be the first docking of a crewed spacecraft in the Soviet space program. Although the two craft approached closely, the docking did not take place and the first successful Soviet docking of crewed spacecraft took place in the joint Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 mission. It served for the radio search and as a target vehicle for docking by the crewed Soyuz 3. Soyuz 2 soft-landed in a predetermined area of the

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* Mass: * Perigee: * Apogee: * Inclination: 51.65° * Period: 88.50 minutes

"Crew" hoax

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claimed in 1997 that Soyuz 2 was crewed by Ivan Istochnikov and a dog named Kloka, who disappeared on 26 October 1968, with signs of having been hit by a meteorite. According to Fontcuberta, Soviet officials deleted Istochnikov from official Soviet history to avoid embarrassment; however, the "Sputnik Foundation" discovered Istochnikov's "voice transcriptions, videos, original annotations, some of his personal effects, and photographs taken throughout his lifetime". The exhibition of artifacts (e.g., photographs) related to "Soyuz 2" was shown in many countries, including

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''El Mundo'' magazine, 25 May 1997, Retrieved 1 July 2008 Among other reactions to the exhibition, a Russian ambassador "got extremely angry because ontcubertawas insulting the glorious Russian past and threatened to present a diplomatic complaint". Several lines of evidence available since the first exhibition of "Sputnik" in 1997 in

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suggested that the story and artifacts form an elaborate hoax: * The name "Ivan Istochnikov" is a Russian translation of Joan Fontcuberta's name; in specific, "Joan" and "Ivan" both translate to "John" and "Fontcuberta" and "Istochnikov" both mean "hidden fountain". * The photographs of Istochnikov show Fontcuberta's face. * Pages of the official website of the Madrid exhibition contain the words "PURE FICTION" toward the top of each page in light red text on a dark red background or light pink text on a white background. * The front and rear endpapers of the catalog accompanying the Madrid exhibition have the words "it's all fiction" in Russian and Spanish printed on them using glow-in-the-dark ink.Kondakova, Olga, et al., ''Sputnik'', Madrid: Fundación Arte y Tecnologia, 1997 * At the website of Spanish newspaper ''El Mundo'', the third of three pages concerning the Madrid exhibition states that "the report which we published on the previous pages is a product of his ontcuberta'simagination".

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"Crew" hoax

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