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...meteors and solar particles. Inhospitable as it is, such a surface could probably bear the weight of both heavy space vehicles and men. The major obstacle remaining before man can fly to the moon, concluded Soviet Academy of Sciences President Mstislav Keldysh, "is the problem of returning a cosmonaut to earth. I think it is easier to solve the problem of a relatively short stay on the moon than to solve the problem of recovery...
Born. To Lieut. Colonel Gherman Titov, 29, Soviet Cosmonaut; and Tamara Dasilyevna, 27; their third child, second daughter; in Leningrad...
...Denver. As for the men, Command Pilot McDivitt and Copilot White survived more than four days of weightlessness in such good shape that space doctors were amazed. Each logged 97 hr. 56 min. in space-just 21 hr. 10 min. less than the record set by Soviet Cosmonaut Valery Bykovsky in June 1963. Together, they were aloft three times longer than all eight U.S. astronauts who preceded them. They covered 1,609,684 miles in their 62-orbit flight. Not only did White spend 20 minutes floating alone outside the capsule, but as a bonus the space twins returned...
White's exhilarating space stroll provided the moments of highest drama during Gemini 4's scheduled 62-orbit, 98-hour, 1,700,000-mile flight. White spent twice the time outside the spacecraft that Soviet Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov did last March 18, and he had much more maneuverability; all Leonov did was somersault around at the end of a tether, getting dizzy, while White moved around pretty much at will...
White's "space walk" lasted eight minutes longer than expected, and it doubled the time of Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, who became the first human being ever to float in space on March...