Word: cosmonauts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...earth, he dined on roast beef and chicken, manually operated the controls of his spacecraft. From the capsule, live television images were periodically flashed to Soviet viewers. Bykovsky waved his logbook, let his pencil and other objects float in the cabin to demonstrate weightlessness. On his fourth orbit, the cosmonaut talked directly to Khrushchev in the Kremlin. Not yet a full-fledged party member, Bykovsky said: "I want to be a Communist, a member of our great Leninist party...
After Seagull joined Hawk, there were more messages. Said Khrushchev: "Dear Valentina Vladimirovna, cordial congratulations to the world's first woman cosmonaut on the wonderful flight through the expanses of the universe ... A happy journey to you! We will be extremely glad to meet you on Soviet soil...
Astronaut Cooper Sir, What a revealing comparison of the attitudes of the American and Russian space explorers: a cosmonaut cries out in space, "I am Eagle ! I am Eagle!" while our astronaut humbly prays, "Father, thank...
...other maverick intellectuals. The official organ of the Moscow Writers Union, Literaturnaya Rossiya, backed a reader's suggestion that Evtushenko be thrown out of the union-a move that would reduce the high-living poet to poverty, since state publishing houses would no longer accept his work. Even Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin joined the wolf pack snarling at Evtushenko's heels. Following up earlier attacks on the poet for daring to evade Soviet censorship by publishing his autobiography in France, Gagarin said the act demonstrated "an unforgivable lack of responsibility...
...agreement. The very fact that Mariner carried its intricate cargo so far, made so many observations and radioed its reports to earth with such singular success marks the most important accomplishment in the annals of space exploration. It is a proud first for the U.S. No achievement by Russian cosmonaut or U.S. astronaut, no experiment made by any of the myriad other satellites that have been shot aloft has taught man nearly so much as he has learned already from the improbable voyage of Mariner...