Burya Flight 1

Mirya Gromova Phantom cosmonaut. . Died 1959.

Personal: Female. Reported killed in a test of a winged rocket-powered aircraft in 1959.

Astronaut Career

Astronaut Group: Phantom Cosmonaut.

In December 1959, the Italian news agency Continentale reported that a series of cosmonaut deaths on suborbital flights had been revealed by a high-ranking Czech communist. Among these was a woman, said to have flown some sort of 'space airplane' into oblivion. No evidence ever surfaced in post-Glasnost Russia to back up the claim.