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67 FLIGHT International, 11 July 1963 One woman, five men, 382 hours' spaceflight time: on the Lenin Mauso leum in Red Square on June 22, cosmo nauts Pavel Popovich, Herman Titov, Andrian Nikolayev, Valentino Teresh kova, Yuri Gagarin and Valery Bykov sky COSMONAUTS HONOURED AFTER JOINT FLIGHT Following the flights of Valery Bykovsky and Valentina Teresh kova in Vostoks 5 and 6, the two cosmonauts were given a large- scale welcome in Moscow on June 22; their subsequent programme included attendance at the World Congress of Women, and press conferences in Moscow on June 24 and July 1. Mr Khrushchev announced that the Praesidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet had conferred on both Tereshkova and Bykovsky the titles of Hero of the Soviet Union and Pilot-Cosmonaut, and that a bronze statue of Miss Tereshkova was to be erected in Moscow. An official description of the joint flight was given in an ex panded version of the announcement of the completion of the flight (Flight International, July 27) in the following words:— "The joint flight of the spaceship satellites Vostok 5 and Vostok 6 has been successfully accomplished. Vostok 5, piloted by Valery Bykovsky, started at 3 p.m. Moscow time on June 14 and, in accord ance with the programme, after a five-day space flight landed in the predetermined area on Soviet territory at 2.06 p.m. on June 19. Vostok 5 was in flight for over 119 hours, and during this time completed over 81 orbits around the Earth and covered a distance of over 3,300,OOOkm. • "Vostok 6, piloted by the world's first woman cosmonaut, Valentina Tereshkova, started at 12.30 p.m. on June 16. In accord ance with the set tasks, Vostok 6 was launched at a time when Vostok 5 was in orbit. In accordance with the programme, the paired flight of the spaceship satellites continued for nearly three days and ended successfully on June 19. Vostok 6 landed at 11.20 a.m. in the predetermined area on the territory of the Soviet Union. The spacecraft was in flight for 71 hours, having orbited the Earth more than 48 times and having covered a distance of nearly two million kilometres. "During the flight the cosmonauts controlled the ships and the work of the systems on board, carried out scientific research and made observations of the surface of the Earth, the cloud envelope of the Earth, the Sun, the Moon and stars. Throughout the flight they regularly carried out physiological, vestibular and psychological tests and did special exercises in conditions of weightlessness. Reliable two-way radio communications were maintained between the spaceships Vostok 5 and Vostok 6. During the flight me cosmonauts exchanged the results of their observations. Radio contacts of the spaceships were stable. All the systems on board ostok 5 and Vostok 6, and also all the ground facilities ensuring tlle flight, functioned faultlessly. Ine reliable way in which the telemetric and television equip ment functioned made it possible to exercise constant supervision v'er the condition of the cosmonauts and the operation of the sys- ms on board. The ground measuring and computing centre ensured measurements and the timely processing of information on e flight trajectories of the spaceships. The systems ensuring the escent and landing of the spaceships functioned harmoniously and w 'mout a hitch. The xlemetred medical data and visual television observations th fl.Sl 'te of the cosmonauts' health, which continued throughout e Bight, showed that cosmonauts Bykovsky and Tereshkova ooct up wejj to tne orbiting, to a space flight lasting several days no.to tie return to Earth. Following the space flight and the ending, • obtained on the influence of various factors of a long-duration space flight on the organisms of man and woman. Medical and biological research was carried out on an extended scale. Rich factual material necessary for the further improvement of the sys tems of piloted spaceships has been obtained. "Valentina Tereshkova's and Valery Bykovsky's joint flight is an important contribution to the peaceful conquest of outer space and again testifies to the high standard of the achievements of Soviet science and technology and to the heroism of Soviet people." The cosmonauts' main press conference will be reported fully in next week's issue. Relay's Record During its first six months of operation, the Relay 1 communications satellite handled a variety of public de monstrations including 37 television, 29 voice, 13 facsimile, six teletype and four data-processing transmissions. Fifteen of the television demonstrations were used by Eurovision; included in the US domestic transmissions was the first colour television via satellite. Facsimile transmissions included both black-and-white and colour photographs; and data-processing demonstrations included the transmission of brain-wave and heart-beat signals between the USA and Europe. The satellite was used also to trans mit signals from the USA to England and Scotland, where they were used automatically to set type for newspapers. As well as the communications demonstrations, Relay 1 has carried out many scientific tests, including radiation measurements, and all the scheduled tests and experiments have been successfully accom plished. The satellite was launched on December 13, 1962 and its first public demonstration—the transmission to Europe of pictures of the Mona Lisa unveiling at the National Gallery of Art in Washington—was on January 9. At the World Congress of Women in the Kremlin Palace of Congresses on June 24, Miss Tereshkova and Lt-Col Bykovsky were wearing their insignia of Pilot-Cosmonaut and Hero of the Soviet Union both cosmonauts are feeling well. At the present time resting and undergoing a medical examination. tensive programme of scientific research in outer space earned out in full. New and valuable information has been ftey are "An
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