This woman found an astronaut forgotten in space 

Its awful that ive heard of this man setting the record for longest amount of time in space but they never mentioned his circumstances.

Maggie is the real one though keeping Sergei sane while he was stranded

Swan Lake was the goto for Soviet television in times of crisis. When it was on TV, you knew things were bad.

Imagine going to space and when you come back, your country is just gone, replaced by several smaller countries.

Just FYI, ham radio is very much still an active hobby. You can talk to the ISS this very day, as well as people all over the world.

they should make a movie about him, and call it: The Last Soviet.

*he got stuck in spectator mode*

I can only imagine how utterly alone he must have felt, and I have a vivid gnosis of that mood. I appreciate his longing for peace on the planet we all share. I enjoyed this episode immensely.

The biggest fear of any astronaut

A friend of mine talked to him on shortwave as well. He didn't get exited about much, but I remember him being very exited about it.

Apparently Sergei's perspective shift is quite common, if not universal, among those who have been to space. Something about seeing the planet as a whole, instead of just the tiny patch you're standing on when on the surface, really helps drive the point home that, for better or for worse, we all want the same things, and we're on this bus together, may as well come together and make the ride more enjoyable. Heady stuff, to be sure. Hope you all are doing well, no matter what part of the globe you call home. Ciao for now.

Poor Sergei. I can't imagine how hard that was for him.

this is truly a crazy story, this is one of the reasons I fear space, and it’s crazy how this story isn’t more popular! I love this channel!

6:30 for anyone wondering who that is, it’s Chris Hadfield. He’s from where I grew up and he’s super laid back, down to earth, kind of guy and we even have an airport named after him!

The "Russian White House" is not in fact the President's residents but instead where the Parliament meets.

Everyone gangsta until dude pops up with alien militias.

Brew is so amazing and he's literally the reason i keep getting A's on biology, history and science thank s Brew!

R.I.P Maggie 🇦🇺 ❤

this could make a awsome game, a man stuck in space getting news about the termoil of his country by staying in contact with a friend back on earth

Imagine the loneliness he must've felt!😅

I've heard of this story many times but never in this detail. Thank you!

He was not forgotten. There’s an entire podcast about this called “The Last Soviet”

I love your videos :) they are one of the only breaks I take from work:)

thank you for mentioning what happened in lithuania in january events!! it means so much to us!

That is so crazy. To be up in space during all of that was definitely a blessing and a curse.

Pale blue dot. Aww, I still miss Carl Sagan.😢

I remember learning about this briefly in a history class in college. Just a footnote really. Fascinating to hear the full story.

Colac? of all places. One of my old stomping grounds. There'd be more things to do on MIR than in Colac. I watched MIR go over just days before it burned up. It was very bright.

People always joked about talking to the astronauts in orbit. Even "In Living Color" had a joke about it in one skit. But Maggie actually did it, and with a ham radio of all things. I would like to see her setup as I am curious.

What a bizzare story! Thanks for sharing it.

I love that this video doesn't repeat itself like what i was used to seeing from brew

well presented / one of the best - thx

I grew up on a small army post called fort Greeley Alaska in the early to mid 80’s. It was the size of a mall plus parking lot just below the arctic circle. Thank god my mom paid extra to get us satlite tv. But the thing I remember most was how often the guys on post would talk to soldiers in Russia with ham radio. Many played chess together. We once had a technician come over and my mom who was community health nurse at the time got the job of taking him out to get incidental things done like food or shopping. He said his wife wanted a blue dress so mom took him to the px. It was larger than a normal px but even saying that maybe a third the size of a Walmart. The guy’s jaw just dropped and he couldn’t process all of what he was seeing. He had never seen so many products before in one place at one time. His wife just had her size and blue dress he had no clue what to do with options he never had before, forget style of dress just the fabric choices threw him off. He ended up taking copious amounts of notes back to his wife and when he returned 6 months later finally got her the dress and several other things. Even as a kid in the middle of no where I understood how bad things over must have been to be that floor by our small store. I ended up learning a fare amount of Russian as a kid from the ham radio in the winter there was just nothing to do but be inside for 8-9 months out of the year. Thank you for this video

Damn, this is extremely emotional.

What an absolutely fascinating video. Thanks, really liked this one.

0:34: You know what? Just these 34 seconds of this video makes me think of something I once heard, a long time ago, about what I think might have been a Russian astronaut who was quite literally forgotten for five months as he circled the earth in a space capsule while the country down below was in upheaval. Again and again he called Earth on his radio, with no response. I don't remember how he got rescued, but ever since then I have always wondered how his food, water, and oxygen held out, along with his waste disposal facilities, especially since it was supposed to be a routine space launch lasting perhaps only a few days or weeks, except that after he was gone the national turmoil started.

i cant explain how much i love these videos, oh my god

This is ground control to major tom 🎵

Love that the laptop he uses is just like my old Lenovo model

About time Brew threw something new at us instead of regurgitating a story that has been told millions of times already.

This is the video that is making me sub. Nicely told man 👌🏽✨

This channel is sooo well written. Congrats from Brasil!

its kind of incredible they dont do headcount on space missions

The Terminal, Extreme Edition

Among Us Singleplayer Mode be like:

I almost didn't watch this because I'm thinking, this lady is listening in to somebody pranking her on a walkie-talkie?

i can’t imagine being stuck at work with no way to get away from it especially for that long

Sergei is an example of why it sucks when you get too important at your job.

12:50 I was doing something else and was absent minded here 😅 I thought she drowned in a boat

Introspection and existentialism brings unity and togetherness, Allowing for that different perspective.

You said "Anatoly" incorrectly. It's pronounced "Anatoly."

Between cheesy puns (stellar 4:25 , spacewalk in the park 8:10) and a touching morals at the end, this turned out to be - stellar episode! :-D 😀

500 Rubles a month? Digging into what that would be worth, it turns out _"very little, and quite a lot"_ depending on whether you mean compared to another currency or the buying power within the USSR.

3:50 Man.. high school teachers were built different back then.

This needs to be turned into a romcom

She found the guy from David Bowie song, Space Oddity. Now I feel at rest 🤍🙏🏻

I feel like a movie could be made out of this

It seems impossible, that they left him up there. I by the way am an Amateur Radio Operator ( Ham ). I still love the Ham Radio Service. We are needed during Emergencies and the rest of the time it is a Hobby.

Wow that woman is incredible

So basically he wasn't forgotten, they just couldn't afford to bring him back

Imagine being on the space station with no one with you and micro gravity that's drilling away at your brains way of know what's up and down and being sick all the time because of 0 gravity and ever time you try to remember what's up and down so you look out a small round window to look at earth thinking that will help only for it to make you sadder

Maggie is a true MVP

The woman didn’t find him the government never forgot about him. When the Soviet Union collapsed the bykanar (I spelled that wrong sorry) cosmodrome in Kazakhstan was no longer accessible to Russia to launch their rockets and send crew to their space station. They tried to negotiate with Kazakhstan to let them launch a rocket to get him home but they wanted a large amount of money. It took about 2 years but they got him home. He has travel in time multiple hundredths of a millisecond and has the record for longer sit time in space.

“How do you lose an astronaut?!”

Maggie is a big part of what may have kept Sergei sane and alive all those time, hats off to her and R.I.P.

The game soft locked. Thank god it got patched, poor guy would have stayed that way for ages!

Note to self, make sure you always have a ride home!

Cheese can you imagine being stuck in space because your country forgot about you? That's worse than Tom Hank's castaway

we can fly among the stars, but we have yet to live among each other as people

The Soviet Union had some of the smartest people in the world who managed to achieve miracles with barely functioning super outdated equipment. I'm reminded of a story about how a conference of soviet mathematicians who still used abacus to do complex math were gifted a Casio calculator when they had recently been released and for them it was the greatest gift anyone had ever given them their whole life.

In Space No one Can Hear You Scream 'I WISH I'D BEAN A BARISTA!'.

I wonder if this is the inspiration for the movie "Sergio & Sergei", except that the contact on Earth was a Cuban man.

Bought a space ship, now I'm a space cadet. 😮

If I were an astronaut, I feel like they’d leave me.

I don't know why this made me tears up a little bit...

She did what nobody else cared to do, find the Nigerian prince in space. What a hero 🥲

He basically was reiterating what JFK said in his speech we all inhabit this small planet we all breathe the same air... It's ironic because basically he was saying the same thing.

They never forgot about him. 🤦

You referenced castaway but it reminded me of the terminal but in space.

_Stores running out of food, people sleeping in train stations and general law and order seeming to be breaking down_ Americans in 1991: Wow, thank goodness we live in the USA, where that can't happen. Americans now: Sounds like today's local news!

One video, plus one fear.

ah yes waking up with brew,a meal and my own brew

Earlier this year a woman in Brazil sent money to a man on the internet claiming he was an astronaut stuck in space who needed money to go back to earth and marry her.

A touching story, I never knew that there was a Cosmonaut in space at the time the Soviet Union collapsed, glad he made it back to Earth!

This is The Terminal but in space.

I need a few days in space to stretch my back out. Have a few compressed discs, I bet that would feel so good for a while.

Actually, time passes more quickly as you get further away from a gravitational source... Time dilation in any other sense is imperceptible until you reach relativistic speeds. So *_technically_* time would be going slightly faster for Sergei in space than we experience here on the surface of earth -- ergo he would be slightly older.

I hope he and maggie stayed penpals

The puns are infinite…

yessss love the full intro back!!

He is still alive :)

She communicated with cosmonauts, yes, but there was never a forgotten astronaut or anything like that.

Didnt know astrodude was bassed on a real person.

The way this guy pronounces Anatoly should be a crime

"a Socialist country that succeeded the Russian Empire". Really? So Stalin was only a socialist. Right.

Im glad maggie was there to help!

24,000,000 seems steep for an 8 day space vacation

Leningrad wasn't really renamed, as it was called St. Petersburg before the Bolshevik Revolution. It just assumed its original name.

Never heard someone call the soviet leader "president" before.

This actually a really interesting story