Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-13
SPACEMEN
2 Russians Expected to Continue
Orbits at Least Till tomorrow
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hours were devoted to break
fast, setting-up exercises, and
then scientific observations,
physiological and veStibular
tear) tests and psychological
tests, it said.
Important Moon Step
The double flight marked a
fantastic feat of Soviet rocketry
that the United States does not
hope to match until at least
next year. The ability to send
up a second space ship "a
hours after the first one had
gone up, and bring it into orbit
in the vicinity of the first ship
marked an important advance
toward the day when satellites
can join in space for construc-
ton of a space platform from
which a moon shot can be
made.
British scientists also said the
Soviet accomplishment could
lead to the early development
Of military satellites that would
home on such Spy-in-the-sky
satellites as the United States
Midas and SamoS and destroy
them.
Soviet announcements so far
gave no indication when the
two spaceshipS would be
brought to earth.
Few Days" Flight Seen
Sir Bernard Lowell, director
of Britain'S Jodrell Bank radio
telescope, said in London Sum-
day he had been advised by ,
Moscow sources that the flights
would continue "a few days"
A Japanese monitoring sta
ton near Tokyo said it had
picked up Soviet radio instruc-
tons to VoStok w to begin the
return to earth at 3:08 am.
EDIT. But that hour passed
with no indication either ship
was coming down.
A United States tracking
station near johannesburg,
South Africa, calculated from
the orbits that both cosmo-
nautS took off from. a launch
ing site in the Baikonur area
near the Armenian border.
Robert Citron, chief Of the
Smithsonian Institution sta
ton, predicted that the two
ships would land near Krasny
Kut, in the southeastern part
of the Soviet Union.
KhruShchev Jubilant
Premier Khrushchev de-
clared jubilantly that "by these
flights the Soviet Union is the
first to blaze the path to group
flights in outer space"
His elation was echoed by /
the Soviet military newspaper {
Krasnaya Zvesda (Red Starr Il
which said. mo matter what
efforts it (the United States |,
Is making. the gap between 1t
and the USSR, far from being
narrowed, is widening"
Soviet scientists hailed the
flight as a triumph but avoided
predictions about moon trip.
Soviet Mathematician Lazur
Lyusternik told TaSs the flight
is evidence the Russians have
developed a new calculation
technique"
1.-THE new calculation tech
nique enabled the Soviet Union
to make the launching of space
ships to the prescribed altitude
q matter Of routine" he said.
The Soviet Academy Of Sci
ences issued a statement hail
ing the double flight as ian
outstanding contribution to the
exploration and conquest of
outer space by man."
Data Methods Improved
This flight will lead to con-
illusions of tremendous impor-
lance concerning the effects of
prolonged flight on man." it
said.
Scientists and technicians
will learn from the cosmonauts
what further improvements are
needed in spaceships, in their
control and recovery systems,
in radio communications with
the earth and between ships in
space"
Scientist R. Bayevsky said
the method of taking biological
data on the two spacemen had
'been greatly expanded as
compared with previous
flights"
Writing in Pravda, Mr.. Ba-
yevsky said the recording de-
vices had been reduced to cap
Sule size in some instances.
1.-THE preamplifier for
registering the biocurrents of
the brain and eye together with
the feeder is a little bit larger
than a box Of matches and is
placed on the cosmonaut," he
said.
1.-THE program of biological
measurements in the flights
envisages the recording of the
following physiological data:
the works of cardiac muscles,
of the respiratory movements,
biocurrentS of the brain, move
ments of eyes, skin-galvanlc
reaction"
He said special systems reg
lister the pulse and frequency
Of respiration.
Special Recorders
.."On board the ship there are
two special recorders: one for
registering all data during the
descent when radio transmits
sion are impossible, and an
other one-an automatic re-
corder for registering pulse