Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-15
SPACEMEN
SPACEMEN
Russians Prepare
Heroes Welcome
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flight. said he parachuted tc
a landing within his spaceshir
Vostok I after a single orbit
Of the earth April u. 1861.
Soviet Mai. Gherman Titov
who made II orbits. leaped
from his Vostok II to land in
his own parachute August 6,
1861. and let the ship come
down nearby.
United States space craft,
braked by rockets for descent.
have all made water landings.
The flights lasted Just 95
minutes short of four days for
Mai. Nikolayev, who blasted
off at 1870 am. Saturday, and
Just 81 minutes short of three
days for Col. Popovich, who
went up at HOP a I'm. Sunday.
Maj, Nikolayev apparently
completed 81 orbits of the earth
covering about l.6 million miles,
six times the distance from the
earth to the moon, which varies
between 221 1853 and 252,7lO
miles. Col. Popovich apparently
made 48 orbits for a distance
OF about l.28 million miles.
They far outdistanced the
time and distance of any pre-
ceding space flight.
Maj. Titov set the previous
record with his 25-hour. IT.
orbit flight on August 6, 1861.
Americas longest travelling
spacemen, 1t. Col. John H.
Glenn, jr., and 1t. Comdr. NAL
colin Scott Carpenter, each
made three orbits this year.
The worlds first spaceman,
Russian Maj. Gagarin, made
one orbit lasting 108 minutes
on April -, 1861.
The full Tass landing an
nouncement said:
In conformity with the pro-
gram of the flight for August
Is. 1862. the spaceships Vostok
III with Cosmonaut Andrian
Nikolayev on board and VoStok
~ with CoSmonaut Pavel Popo-
vich on board have landed in
the predetermined area. The
spaceships VoStok III and Vos-
tok w have landed normally.
Follows the time of the land
ings:
"Nikolayev-nine hours fifty
five minutes.
"Popovich-10 hours zero one
minute.
After the space flight and
the landing both cosmonauts
feel well. The program of the
flight Of the Spaceships Vostok
IIE and Vostok " had been
carried out fully"
Heroes Welcome Awaits
A heroes welcome and world
acclaim awaited Maj. Niko-
layev, 80, and Col. Popovich, 81.
whom Soviet newspapers have
dubbed the heavenly twins"
Red Square already was being
readied for a mammoth well
come for the two new heroes,
possibly on Sunday. which is
SoIiet Air Force Day.
After its first announcement,
Moscow Radio began a program
of patriotic music and a big
voiced baritone sang: The
Communist Party of the Coun-
try"
Both radio and televiSion
cancelled regular programs for
he latest space bulletins mixed
With patriotic tunes. I
Moscow television promptly
showed pictures of the two
,osrnonauts in their flying
helmets, shots which became ,
a kind of trademark of the
four day operation.
Soviet officials have not dis
closed much Of what has been |
learned so far. However, the |
flights apparently gave these
results:
The two cosmonautS proved
that man can withstand the
rigerS of space travel with its
accompanying weightlessneSs,
at least for a trip to the moon
and back. Such a trip is ex-
peeted to take at least three
days, with the first two days
devoted to launching space
ships into orbit and joining
them into a single craft for
the final lunar voyage.
Titov Had Been Ill
Mai. Titov had raised doubts
about mans ability to with