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... Release)'' Jr. Lt. Valentina Tereshkova 's confirmation that she landed by parachute separately from her VOSTOK VI spacecraft was reported in Aviation Week and Space Technology . ''(Av. Wk., 7/8/63, 26 ...

... when she orbited earth June 16-19, 1963, on board U.S.S.R.'s Vostok VI, was elected President of the Presidium of the Soviet Women's Committee. ''(Moscow News, 6 ...

... ­mitted more than 44,000 useful cloud-system photographs and TIROS VI , more than 39,000. TIROS V and TIROS VI VI photographed hurri­canes and typhoons in July, August, and September 1962 ... spacecraft design. Cosmos sat­ellites supplied current space weather data before and during flight of VOSTOK III and IV and were used to study micrometeoroid impact. on spacecraft. ''(Av. Wk., 4 ...

... recommendations of NASA Board of Inquiry (Kelley Board) prior to RANGER VI and the Hilburn Board following RANGER VI . Hilburn report outlined: (1) design changes effected after analyses ... . "Human Safety: . . . The Russians sent up without recovery Laika , four years before Gagarin. The Vostok ship itself completed 100 orbits of fully controlled flight, including successful recovery of ...

... honor of Astronaut Virgil I. Grissom who died in Jan. 27 Apollo accident. ''(NASA LAR VI/65)'' US., France, and U.K. had had excellent displays at Paris International Air and ... launch vehicle that in 1961 sent Pioneer cosmonaut Yuri A. Gagarin into orbit in Vostok spacecraft Vostok 1. Visitors at the show flocked to a huge mock-up of the 13.6 ...

... flew from the carrier Wasp to KSC where they had a brief reunion with Gemini VI Astronauts Walter M. Schirra , Jr., and Thomas P. Stafford , who were departing later in the ... . Popovich , who orbited the earth 48 times in VOSTOK IV in August 1962, said in an interview with Izvestia that the rendezvous of Gemini VI and GEMINI VII was "a great achievement ...

In early morning broadcast, Radio Moscow announced Cosmonaut Nikolayev (VOSTOK III) had completed 61 earth orbits and Cosmonaut Popovich (VOSTOK IV) had finished 45 orbits. Landing safely in Kazakhstan, U.S.S ... conquered, man will be able to undertake interstellar flights. Noting that the rockets boosting VOSTOK III and VOSTOK IV into orbit were 20,000,000 horsepower, he predicted that during the Twentieth ...

... launched the previous day. Nikolayev reported shortly thereafter that he had sighted VOSTOK IV, and within three hours after VOSTOK IV's launch the two spacecraft had completed two orbits of the ... Center (Cleveland, Ohio) placed the two spacecraft at 75 miles apart during VOSTOK III's twenty-second orbit and VOSTOK IV's sixth orbit, and at 385 miles during later orbital passes ... the night. TV pictures of Soviet Cosmonauts Nikolayev and Popovich orbiting the earth in spacecraft VOSTOK III and IV were viewed by the public in Russia, Western Europe, England, and the ...

... radio contact with earth and between themselves. By 4:10 PM Moscow time VOSTOK III completed 52 orbits; VOSTOK IV , 36 orbits. Soviet government remained silent on plans to land the pair ... already issued postage stamp honoring double space flight of VOSTOK III and IV. Five live telecasts of Cosmonauts Nikolayev (VOSTOK III) and Popovich (VOSTOK IV) reportedly were received and relayed by Moscow television ...

... earth 40 times and had passed the million-mile mark in VOSTOK At this time, his companion Cosmonaut Popovich in VOSTOK IV completed 24 orbits of the earth and logged 621,000 ... and Astronautics, spoke on the House floor in acknowledgment of successful Soviet space flights of VOSTOK III and IV. Senator Alexander Wiley acknowledged the event on the Senate floor and pointed ... computers to space technology. NASA Manned Spacecraft Center officials commented that flights of Soviet spacecraft VOSTOK III and IV would not affect programing of U.S. Project Gemini two-man orbital ...

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