Word: cosmonaut
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...orbit around the earth, or send an 80,000-lb. payload to outer space. This is far more weight than can be put aloft by any other U.S. missile-more than enough to send three astronauts around the moon and back, far more than the missile that sent Soviet Cosmonaut Gherman Titov around the globe 17 times...
Having zipped over the U.S. at 17,750 m.p.h. during his 17-orbit spin last August, Soviet Cosmonaut Major Gherman Titov, decided it was time for a more leisurely look. Titov, whose 25-hr. 18-min. flight remains the world's record, requested a visa to attend an international space conference that opens in Washington next week. There he may get to meet a fellow space traveler, who is scheduled to talk about his own three-orbit flight: U.S. Astronaut Lieut. Colonel John H. Glenn...
...whole U.S. was wondering, and so, apparently, were some Russians. "He must have nerves of steel," said Soviet Air Force Colonel B. A. Aristov, who was touring Greece with Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. "I hope he stands the strain. It must be a terrible ordeal...
...barnstorming tour of the boondocks aimed at whipping up enthusiasm for his threatened invasion of Nether lands New Guinea, Indonesia's President Sukarno took along a star-studded cast: ten admiring foreign ambassadors, including the U.S.'s Howard Palfrey Jones, Soviet Cosmonaut Gherman Titov, a brigade of local beauties. As an unexpected thrill for the crowds along the way, there was even an unsuccessful assassination attempt...
...Soviet's annual New Year's bash in the Kremlin, convivial Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, 27, buttonholed the ornament of the U.S. embassy, vivacious Jane Thompson, 41, and proposed, "How would you like to go into orbit with me?" Responded the lissome wife of Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson: "Why, I'd be frightened to death. Besides," she added smoothly, "I'm not in training...