Apr 8 1962
From The Space Library
Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri A. Gagarin, in a Tass interview, said: "It is now necessary to determine how long a man can operate in outer space without prejudice to his health—five days, ten days, or more. This is one of the main tasks before proceeding to more complex flights to the moon, for example, or to the establishment of orbital or interplanetary stations." He criticized the U.S. for being "reluctant" to file details of the Glenn flight with the U.N. "The best information about outer space has been obtained in the U.S.S.R. The Americans can benefit more by our experience than we by theirs. Some people in America are not interested in exchanges of scientific information." The U.S. had submitted information concerning the Glenn flight to the U.N. on April 3, 1962.
Surveyed by the Washington Post on the proposal to fire rockets loaded with radioactive waste into outer space, Washington-area clergymen responded variously. Comments on the proposal ranged from a "dreadful desecration of the Heavens" to a "fulfillment of the divine commandment to protect man and the earth on which he dwells." Soviet nuclear scientist, Dr. Peter Kapitza, had made the proposal in the April issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
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