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the large globe of the Moon marked with Russian place-
names, nor the space-walking cosmonaut suspended by
almost-invisible wires, nor the blackened capsule (looking
like a wartime mine) in which Yuri Gagarin made history for
the USSR, nor the glass-cabinet display of Soviet pennants
deposited on the Moon, nor the solar panels, sensors and
antennas that make the Molniyas, Lunas and Electrons s...
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 ...HT International, 10 October 1963
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Spaceflight
The IAF Congress was held in the impressive
meeting halls of the UNESCO building in Paris
UK-3 DESCRIBED AT PARIS CONGRESS
WITH Lt-Col Yuri Gagarin as guest of honour at the final banquet on October 1, the 14th Congress of the Inter national Astronautical Federation was generally reckoned
to have been one of the most successful IAF ...
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 ...t and looks
forward to your support in this connection."
ARTIST'S VIEW OF VOSTOK
In the caption to the picture above, an artist's impression of
Vostok 1, which appeared in Pravda on September 17, Maj
Yuri Gagarin writes:
"After the completion of the first flight of man in space, my
friend and artist cosmonaut thought to portray the spaceship in
flight. He did much work on this picture, frequently ...
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 ...ill be obtained by inversion of multi-
spectral radiometric measurements of the Earth's horizon.
NEW SPACE TRACKING-SHIP
The Soviet Union's new deep-space tracking and research
ship, the Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, left Odessa on
December 13 for its maiden voyage. The ship was built in
Leningrad and was commissioned last June as the flagship
of the Russian space-tracking fleet which includes the...
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 ...DCHT International, 4 April 1968 473
yuri Gagarin
Colonel Yuri Gagarin, the Russian
cosmonaut who died last week in a fly-
ing accident at the age of 34, made
aviation history on April 12, 1961, when
be became the first man to fly in spa...
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 ...d ianimals are just one of many Vostok derivatives o
ver the past 30 years, the Soviets
have conducted more than 1,000
space missions using variants of
the Vostok capsule which carried
cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin into orbit in 1961 to
become the first man in space.
The Vostok spacecraft, which went on to
be used for military photo-reconnaissance,
civilian remote-sensing, biosatellite, and
mic...
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 ...issiles and Spaceflight. . .
FLIGHT, 27 April1961 555
Absorbing the news at the reception in honour of" Maj Yuri Gagarin in
the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow on April 14: from the left, Mrs
Gagarin, Maj Gagarin, Mr Khrushchev and Mrs Khrushchev
Associated Television Ltd, British Insulated Calender's Cables...
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 ...d Sir Geoffrey Taylor, Trinity College,
Cambridge University.
Rocket Models A new sport has emerged in the Soviet Union—
the construction and flying of model rockets. On the first anniver
sary of Yuri Gagarin's orbital flight of April 12, 1961, the first
Moscow regional competitions for rocket modellers were held.
A total of 170 schoolchildren competed for the Yuri Gagarin
Challenge Trophy,...
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 ...e backup Voshkhod 2
commander Dmitri Zaikin,
who was to have made a Soyuz
flight, was grounded with a
stomach ulcer in 1969.
Three other members of the
20-strong cosmonaut team
have also died; Yuri Gagarin
in an aeroplane crash in
March 1968, Vladimir
Komarov in the Soyuz 1 disas
ter in April 1967, and Pavel
Belyayev during an operation
for stomach ulcers in January
1970. Pyotr Dolgo...
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 ...d later this year from
China's Jiuquan base.
The crewed flight will make China the
third nation to launch a national manned
flight, after the former Soviet Union and
the USA nearly 40 years ago. Yuri Gagarin
flew into orbit and Alan Shepard made a
suborbital flight in 1961. Space travellers
from 23 other nations have since been
launched by Russia and the USA.
China has enlisted the help ...
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 ...ce then, however, three impressively equipped ships
have joined the fleet: the Kosmonavt Vladimir Komarov
(0.967), the Akedemik Sergei Korolyov ('1970) and the
flagship of the fleet, the Kosmonavt Yuri Gagarin (1972),
Their dispositions at sea fall into three categories, each
with two positions.
Manned orbital flight The first six revolutions of an
orbital space vehicle launched into a 52° ...
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 ... by this space satellite simulator at
Minneapolis-Honeywell's "new $5m aerospace facility,"
which weighs two tons, is suspended on an air bearing, and
was designed and built by company scientists
Maj Yuri Gagarin, the first Soviet cosmonaut, has agreed to becomepresident of Glasgow University Communist Club.
A $5,000 award to Mr William J. O'Sullivan Jr of NASA's LangleyResearch Center has been ma...
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 ...improve and modules will be
delivered in time. President Boris Yeltsin made
the right political noises supporting space pro
grammes during celebrations on 12 April to
mark the 35th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's first
spaceflight. The strain is telling, however.
Koptev hoped to receive $650 million for his
space projects this year, but has so far received a
commitment for only $290 million....
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 ...SPACEFLIGHT
Cosmonauts to fly Chernobyl mission
BY TIM FURNISS
Three cosmonauts from the Ukraine are to fly on a
Soyuz TM mission to the Mir
space station next year to mon
itor the area around t...
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 ...e launcher at 0600hr on October 4,
1957, when it launched Sputnik 1 from
Pad 1. On April 12, 1961, the first
manned spaceflight was launched from
the same pad. The official announcement
declared Yuri Gagarin to have been
launched from the Baikonur
Cosmodrome—a name selected in prefer
ence to Tyuratam either because of its
meaning of "rich region", as Gen
Kerimov claims, or possibly as an...
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 ...6 April 1962 667
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and Spaceflight
At a Kremlin rally on April 12, now designated Cosmonautics Day in the SoWet Union, the speakers
included Herman Titov, here addressing the assembly, and Yuri Gagarin (between Mr Khrushchev
and Deputy Premier Frol Kozlov) i
Cosmonautics Day: Gagarin Flight Celebrated
THE first anniversary of the orbital flight by Maj Yuri Gagarin on April 12, 1961 w...
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 ...erformance intermediate between Saturn
1 and Saturn 5. This article, specially written for "Flight Inter
national," takes the discussion further in the light of statements by
Nikita Khrushchev and Yuri Gagarin.
MR KHRUSHCHEV'S recent statement indicating that Russia does not intend to engage in a Moon-race with the United States has been received with caution in Washington.
At his press confe...
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 ...e the first astronaut not only felt well
during the launch into orbit (high loads, temperatures, weightlessness),but also he landed successfully.
"Now I can add some biographical details. His name is Yuri Gagarin.He is a pilot in the Air Force of the Soviet Union. He is 26 years old
[he was 27 last month—Ed.], and was born in the Region of Smolensk.He is married."
Prof Blagonravov went on to answe...
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 ...en, a film
of Gagarin's flight, the preparations for it and its aftermath. On
the left screen a man is seen giving a commentary on the other film:
he is well qualified to do this, because his name is Yuri Gagarin.
In front of the screens, a rapt audience. Girls with pigtails, a
group of schoolchildren, an old lady wearing a headscarf and a
long black skirt. Youths, men, family groups, a complete c...
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 ...04 FLIGHT International, 30 August 196:
At the Moscow University press conference: (from the left) Yuri Gagarin, Andrian Nikolayev, Mstislov Keldysh and Pavel Popovich
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Spaceflight
(C GROUP SPACE FLIGHT" DESCRIBED
*' Mtl O fundamental difference" between Vostoks3 and4 and those
1^1...
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