 30 minutes before the landing, and even prepared press releases in case his flight landed off course and they would require international assistance. Clearly, the Kremlin took a pragmatic view of the prospect that a cosmonaut's reentry into Earth may go wrong, especially with the possibility that they may end up in a foreign country. It therefore makes little sense that they would have gone to such lengths to cover up Lucian's supposed off-course landing just five days before.