Doctored Photos That Changed History

No Longer a Cosmonaut

This is a photo of Russia's cosmonauts who were the first people to orbit the earth. It was a huge feat, especially at the very beginning of the Space Race against American astronauts. Russia, loving the idea of photoshop, had an issue with one of the cosmonauts and decided to try and erase him from the history that they made...

One Less Cosmonaut

Grigoriy Nelyubov was removed from the team due to misbehavior. Eventually, he was completely removed from the program and was even stripped of his achievement. Russia then began the process of deleting him from history via photoshop. 

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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.