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Alexis Graciov Phantom cosmonaut. . Died 28 November 1960. Personal: Male. Reported killed in an orbital flight on 28 November 1960. Astronaut Career Astronaut Group: Phantom Cosmonaut. Readers Digest in April 1965 ran the story of sensational radio intercepts of the Judica-Cordiglia brothers at Torre Bert, Italy. On 28 November 1960 they claimed to have received the cryptic Morse code English message 'SOS to the entire world' from a stationary point in the sky. They concluded this was from a cosmonaut who had inadvertently rocketed into a translunar trajectory (well beyond Russian booster capability in 1960). The odd name Alexis Graciov was associated with this flight.
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