 However, in the months before Gagarin's flight, news that Ilyushin was in cosmonaut training had already made it to the Soviet press. There was even a photograph of him in a spacesuit published in the newspapers. The details of Ilyushin's supposed crash also changed numerous times. Now it was so serious that it had put him in a coma for almost a year, making it impossible for him to have undergone the cosmonaut training at all.