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WL. 22, No. 32

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UGUST 17, 1962 co
VANCOUVER, B.C.

World figures acclai

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Plane of Gary Powers.”
ne nident Kennedy. — “I
on tatulate the Soviet Union
feat 1S exceptional technical
of Md salute the courage
id two new astronauts.
Wish fecan people, I know,
hem a safe return.”
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m Ust be exciting,” he said,
tha See and hear a fellow
Rage ler in space.” In a mes-
Sig. to Major Nikolayev, he
than I would like to ex-
Were: Places with you if it
th Possible .. . I wish you
You. uccessful completion of
Journey.’’

Pope John — “ .. . the
pilot is testing in a most de-
cisive and certamly determi-
ned manner the intellectual
moral and physical capacities
of man, who continues to ex-
plore all creation.”

“The peoples, and _ parti-
cularly the young generation,
follow enthusiastically the
development of these marvel-
lous space flights and naviga-
tion in space.”

Prime Minister Nehru —
was reported to have told a
meeting in New Delhi that
the new space flights were
further proof of man’s ability
to destroy the world or make
it a better place to live.

Mme. Maria Popovich, wife
of Lieut. - Col. Popovich,
(when asked why she was
nervous about, her husband’s
flight) — “Because Iam a
pilot. Because is seems to me
now that at times it is better
to know nothing than not to
know everything. Because
during the day I re-read for
hours reports about radiation
in space after the explosions
of the American hydrogen
bombs.” (in the atmosphere).

Premier Khrushchev —‘‘By
these flights the Soviet Union
is the first to blaze the path
to group flights in outer

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The Soviet Union once again demonstrated to the world the superiority of the

The Soviet aims in the his-
toric event were given by
Nikolayev before mounting
into his capsule on Saturday,
August 11, when he said:

“Let this new flight to the
stars be another contribution
of our people to the cause of
further exploration of outer
space for peaceful purposes.”

World scientists were al-
most unanimous in labelling
this newest exploit of Soviet
science and rocketry “fantas-
ties?

Nikolayev. completed 64
trips around the earth, logged
1.6 million miles and landed
safely in a pre-arranged spot
in the Soviet Union at 11:55
p.m. Vancouver time Tuesday
evening.

His space twin Popovich
orbitted the world a total of
48 times for 114 million miles
and landed just 5 minutes
later, at 12 midnight Van-
couver time.

The world saw the Niko-
layev and Popovich duet
hastening the first successful
trip to the moon, and space
observers who had been fore-
casting a moon shot within
eight years are now conced-
ing that the Soviet Union will
be in a position to safely land
a man on the moon by 1966.

The amazing accuracy and
confidence of Soviet techni-

cians becomes obvious when
one realizes that they had a
bare 14 second interval in
which to launch the second
space ship in order for it tc

Soviet
Space
Diary

October 4, 1957: First
artifical earth satellite
(Sputnik I).

January 2, 1959: Roc-
ket fired past the Moon,
into orbit around the
Sun.

October 4, 1959: Invis-
ible side of the Moon

’ photographed.

May 15, 1960: First
large spaceship launched;
brought safely back on
August 20.

February
Rocket fired
Venus’ from
space ship.

April 12, 1961: Yuri
Gagarin’s historic orbit
of the Earth.

August 7, 1961: Gher-
man. Titov’s 17 orbits
around our planet.

12, 1961:
towards

orbitting

bit socialist system and mankind took another giant step in space last weekend when
Major Andrian G. Nikolayev and Lieutenant-Colonel Pavel R. Popovich, Soviet cos-
monauts, effected the first “group orbitting” in history.

successfully join its predecés-
sor in space and rendezvous
at the appointed place.

Sunday night the Soviet
television network broadcast
a talk of Premier Khrush-
chev, from his vacation resi-
dence at Yalta, on the Black
Sea, with Nikolayev.

In the room with Khrush-
chev were’ Deputy Premier
Anastas Mikoyan, Soviet
Communist Party secretary
Frol Kozlov and several other
members of the Soviet leader-

ship.
Several hours after the
launching of Popovich, the

Kiev TV relayed an inter-
view with the parent of the
Ukrainian cosmonaut. His
mother, a shy woman wear-
ing the traditional ‘“babush-
ka” (head scarf) replied with
embarrassment to the gentle
questioning of a woman an-
nouncer.

Popovich’s father, a strong-
ly-built man with an enor-
mous black moustache and
wearing an embroidered Uk-
rainian shirt, rubbed his chin
thoughtfully when asked to
comment, and said:

‘Well, what is there to say?
I wish him success in fulfill-
ing the assignment of the
Communist Party and Soviet
Government and then to re-
turn to earth safely.”

SOVIET SPACE FAMILY GROWING EVER-LARG

Two more members have been dramatically added
to the Soviet space family. Andrian Nikolayev (Left)
was launched into the cosmos on Saturday, August
11, and was followed the next day by Pavel Popovich
(Right). .

Their predecessors were Yuri Gagarin and Gher-
man Titov (Centre).

This newest Soviet accomplishment brings closer
the first manned flight to the Moon.

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