Word: andrian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...theorizing that the cosmonauts had exceeded man's natural limits in space. The Russians themselves had invited such speculation by repeatedly stressing the debilitating effects of weightlessness on the human body: loss of body fluids, loss of calcium from the bones, loss of heart and muscle tone. Cosmonauts Andrian Nikolayev and Vitaly Sevastyanov, for example, complained that they did not fully recover from their 17-day orbital mission aboard Soyuz 9 last year for more than a week...
Last week, as Soyuz 9 completed its 220th swing around the earth, Cosmo nauts Andrian Nikolayev and Vitaly Sevastyanov broke the endurance mark for space travel set in 1965 by As tronauts James Lovell and Frank Borman aboard Gemini 7 (13 days...
...major international space conference was winding up in Leningrad last week, and U.S. Moon Walker Neil Armstrong was inspecting the cosmonauts' Star City compound outside Moscow, the Soviets launched a two-man spaceship, Soyuz 9. into orbit around the earth. On board were Vostok 3 Cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev, 40-husband of the world's only spacewoman, Valentina Tereshkova-and Rookie Vitaly Sevastyanov, 35. They were the first Russians in space since last October's triple launch of manned Soviet spacecraft...