On September 18, 1968, Western intelligence picked up a signal from Zond 5, a Soviet lunar mission.The messages were unusual. They emitted the voices of cosmonauts Valery Bykovsky, Vitaly Sevastyanov, and Pavel Popovich, speaking as if they were just about to land on the Moon: [QUOTE] “The flight is proceeding according to normal; we’re approaching the surface…”The CIA and NASA were horrified and didn’t know whether Russia had just beat them to the Moon or if it was all a hoax. Ultimately, it turned out to be a little of both.
