Word: cosmonaut
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...welcome was so warm that about the only thing missing was balalaika music. Astronaut Tom Stafford greeted the Soviet visitors to the Johnson Space Center in his newly acquired (albeit broken) Russian. Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov-who in 1965 became the first man to walk in space-promptly returned the linguistic compliment. Asked whether he anticipated any language difficulties when Stafford's Apollo spacecraft and his Soyuz rendezvous and dock in earth orbit in 1975, Leonov broke into a broad grin and said: "No problem English...
...U.S.S.R., the Kremlin is be ginning to raise the curtain slightly. Several American correspondents, including TlME's Moscow Bureau Chief John Shaw and Washington-based Aerospace Reporter Jerry Hannifin, have recently been allowed to visit Zvezdnoy Gorodok - Star City - the Soviet Union's cosmonaut-training complex 40 miles northeast of Moscow. Their report...
Unlike the Johnson Space Center in Houston, where major retrenchments are under way, Star City is rapidly expanding-a sure sign of the Soviet Union's continued dedication to the exploration of space. The original compound of bungalow-style stucco buildings, where Yuri Gagarin and other early cosmonauts trained, is now being replaced by a sprawling modernistic community, including balconied apartment houses, schools, libraries and a sports stadium, as well as tennis courts, soccer fields and other athletic facilities. "The population keeps growing," says Major General Vladimir Shatalov, director of cosmonaut training at Star City...
...Nonetheless, on their first evening in Moscow, the President and Mrs. Nixon will be honored at a state dinner in the Kremlin. Later they will watch the Bolshoi Ballet, which will probably present one act each from Swan Lake and Giselle. The President may also visit Star City, the cosmonaut center near Moscow, or be flown to see an unmanned space shot at Baikonur in central Asia. More important, he will be accorded the privilege of making a short television address to the Soviet people. Pat Nixon will be the guest of Mrs. Brezhnev at tea and will visit Moscow...
When President Nixon saw a newspaper photo of Soviet Cosmonaut Georgy Dobrovolsky's daughter Maria at the Kremlin wall mourning her father's death, he sat down and wrote his own longhand condolences: "Like your father I also have two daughters and their hearts go out to you as do Mrs. Nixon's and mine. But I know your father would want you to face his loss with a strength and courage to match his own. As your sister Natasha grows older I know you will help her understand how very proud of her father you both...