Word: andrian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said. "The men shouldn't complain." When she flew into Moscow for her official reception three days later, Valya was greeted by more flowers than anyone remembered ever having seen before in the Russian capital, a bear hug and kiss from Khrushchev, and her best beau, Bachelor Cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev...
...physical checks on the Kearsarge, Gordon Cooper displayed a momentary dizziness upon stepping out onto the deck after 34 hours and 20 minutes of weightless flight through 22 orbits-a space trip surpassed only by the 64-and 48-orbit tandem missions of Soviet Cosmonauts Andrian Nikolayev and Pavel Popovich last August. He had lost 7 Ibs. since his Canaveral liftoff, and in his dehydrated state, he gulped down four glasses of pineapple juice and six glasses of milk...
Before an audience of 2,000 correspondents, cameramen and spectators in Moscow University's ornate assembly hall, Russia's space twins, Major Andrian Nikolayev and Lieut. Colonel Pavel Popovich, last week underwent a four-hour earth post-mortem of their memorable exploit in space...
...seven MIG jet fighters, swooped low over the city and dipped its wings. Moments later, at Vnukovo Airport on the outskirts of Mos cow, the plane came to a stop before a 100-long red carpet stretched over the runway. Out stepped Russia's two newest cosmonauts, Major Andrian Nikolayev, 32, and Lieut. Colonel Pavel Popovich...
...ground, Russia exulted. A Moscow postman's wife gave birth to twin sons and promptly named them Pavel and Andrian. From each capsule, cameras transmitted onto Soviet TV screens what the Russians said were live pictures of the spacemen, who demonstrated weightlessness to the viewers by floating pencils and other objects before the camera lenses...