Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-08-15

stand prolonged space journey
by complaining of a kind Of
seasickneSS during weightless-
ness. There has been no report
that either Maj. Nickolayev or
Col. Popovich suffered such a
sensation. All Soviet announce
ments reported them in good
health throughout the flights.
The Russians demonstrated
pinpoint precision with their
double launching. 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 be joined together in space
for construction of the space
platform from which a moon
shot can be made.
Exactly how close the two
ships came was not an
nounced. The Soho Research
Center at Cleveland, Ohio, re-
ported that the two spaceships
were only rs miles apart when
the center first picked them
up Sunday and that they prob
ably had been closer and may
even have touched earlier.
The ships moved away from
each other as the flights con-
tinued, but the astronauts ap-
parently were in close touch
with each other by radio
through most of the flights.
They even sang each other to
sleep last night.
Had Control in Flight
Alexander Topchiev, a men,
Der of the Soviet Academy of
sciences. confirmed that the
two astronauts had Unanswered
their ships in relation with
each other. He said the flight
took a first big step" toward
solving the problem of con-
trolling spaceShips in flight,
co-ordinating their positions
and carrying on radio commu-
nications between vehicles.
AS usual, the Russians gave
no advance warning of either
the takeoffs or the landings.
But in Tokyo. the Japanese
Broadcasting Corp, MIX, re-
ported several hours before the
landings that it had inter-
cepted messages between the
Soviet Union and the space
ships concerning the descents,
MIX said the Russian-lan-
guage message from the Soviet
Union to Col. Popovich re-
ported the temperatures and
humidity gauges in his space
craft we're registering very
low readings" and that "since
you have successfully per-
formed all your duties, you are
to begin preparations for
descent"
MIX said the message in
structed Col. Popovich to check
the condition of his safety belt,
the safety belt key, the seat
catapult switch and the con-
dition of his space suit.
Wind Speeds Given /
The message also informed =
Col. Popovich that the wind :
speed of his scheduled landing h
ute was z to 9 meters per d
second.
A message from Maj. Nikola- I"
rev to the Soviet Union con- ii
irmed that landing wind We c
ocity readings given him were N
,etween 5 and 6 meters per t.
second, MIX said.
The differences in wind speed G
indicated that the landings o
we're made some distance apart. +
Tass also indicated a change I
Of routine for today when 1t .
that the spacemen /
awoke at $3.50 am, instead Of c
the usual 4 am, from another
nights rest in space-the .
fourth for Maj. Nikolayev, the. =
third for Col. Popovich. The .
announcement also omitted the !
usual references to their TAX Z
ing morning exercises and eat {
ing breakfast. B.,
Messages Heard :
Earlier yesterday, Tass had
relayed a stream of radio b
from the astronauts:
Maj. NikolayeV: Falcon CALL I
ing. The earth is visible quite N