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Milestones
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Of space

OCTOBER 4; 1957: Sputnik
» the first artificial earth sat-

~ elite launched by the Soviet

nion.
: MAY 15, 1958: Sputnik 3
aunched.. Was a veritable

Space laboratory and marked
“aia Stage in large scale ex-
Ploration ° of upper atmos-

AUGUST 27, 1958: Instru-
Pees: and ‘animals’ were
brought Safely back to the
pound after being launched

Single stage rocket.

‘ JANUARY 2, 1959: Space
Scket fired past the moon
Into orbit round the Sun.

OCTOBER 4, 1959: Lunik

qn otographed the invisible
© of the moon, and _televis-
back to earth.

MAY 15, 1960: First large
SPacesh

‘is; Seas ‘launched and Aug-

“a when the spaceship and

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Y point calculated.

kee PRUARY 12, 1961: Roc-
“i ired towards Venus from
Ceship first put in orbit.

SOVIET SPACE FLIGHT

VOL. 20, NO. 15 VANCOUVER, B.C.
FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1961 :

’

YURI GAGARIN . . . son of a worker and
Communist Party member. . - first man

in space.

“Space Achievement

In Service Of Peace”

By MAURICE RUSH

A young Russian worker, foundryman by trade, son
of a carpenter and member of the Soviet Communist
Party this week launched a new era for mankind by being
the first man to travel to space and return safely to earth.

The name Yuri Gagarin, 27 year old father of two
small daughters, flashed across the world’s headlines
Tuesday and Wednesday and wrote a new chapter in
human history.

““Greatest Achievement of Man”

World science has hailed the achievement, of the Soviet
Union as opening up a tremendous new era in which man
will conquer space. “The greatest achievement in the
history of mankind,” was the way British scientist Sir
Bernard Lovell, head of the Jodrell Bank Observatory,
described the Soviet achievement.

Announcement of the Soviet achievement came Tues-
day night (Vancouver time) after a day of speculation,
First to break the story of the successful launching of a
man in space was the British Daily Worker.

On Monday, following publication of this story, the
world waited breathlessly, expecting the official announce-
ment to come from the Soviet news agency Tass at any
moment.

The Tass announcement reported that the spaceship
weighing five ton took off with Major Yuri Gagarin
aboard at 9:07 a.m. Moscow time. It rounded the globe in

89.1 minutes. Altogether the first spaceman in history was
up 108 minutes.

Hailed As Heroic Feat

On landing Gagarin asked that a message be sent. to
the party and government and Soviet Premier Khrushchey
that everything went as planned during the flight and on
landing.

In reply Premier Khrushchev said “the entire Soviet

See SPACE FLIGHT, page 3