Lost Cosmonauts - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

The lost cosmonauts are referred to in popular culture including art, science fiction and film.

• The 2011 science fiction horror film Apollo 18 depicts NASA astronauts landing on the moon in 1974 and finding a dead cosmonaut along with a wrecked Soviet landing module.
• A 2005 Russian mockumentary movie First on the Moon (Первые на Луне) features the fictional story of a 1938 Soviet landing on the Moon.
• In the 2002 movie K-19: The Widowmaker while enjoying some vodka an officer relates a tale of a Lost Cosmonaut before Gagarin who died when his life support system failed.
• A 1989 installment of Philip Bond's "Wired World", published in the UK comics anthology Deadline magazine, features a cosmonaut who crash lands in a London park where the main characters are picnicking.
• The upcoming Spanish science fiction feature film The Cosmonaut is inspired by accounts of lost cosmonauts.
• Victor Pelevin's anti-soviet novel "Omon Ra" is based on depiction of Soviet space flights as a planned homicide. Some of these "flights" are also not really flights, but fakes in the sake of Soviet propaganda.
• In Metal Gear Solid 3 one of the game's bosses, The Fury, is a lost cosmonaut who was badly burned upon re-entry and served as a secret elite combat operative in Soviet jungles.
• Wolf Parade's song "Yulia" is about a Soviet cosmonaut's fate, drifting in space, never to return home to his love.
• The Jed Mercurio novel Ascent features a cosmonaut who makes a successful - albeit suicidal - moon landing ahead of the Apollo landings.