Word: cosmonauts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...McDivitt: "It's fun. I'm not coming in." At one point, McDivitt protested: "Hey, you smeared my window you dirty dog." Replied the floating White: "Yep." He finally returned to the capsule after a 20-minute stroll- during which he maneuvered far more freely than Soviet Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov had in a ten-minute space walk three months before. Said he: "I felt red, white and blue all over...
...Three others-Charles Bassett, Elliot See Jr. and Theodore Freeman-died in jet-plane crashes. The Soviets are known to have had only two cosmonaut casualties: one in a high-altitude parachute jump that is required of all space trainees, the other in an auto accident...
...space, Russian scientists reported that they gradually became acclimated, and apparently suffered no permanent ill effects from weightlessness. Doctors were still watching for any radiation effects, because at the apogee of each of their 330 orbits they were at a height of 560 miles-higher than any astronaut or cosmonaut has ever flown, and well within the lower reaches of the Van Allen radiation belt...
...Western scientists, it seemed obvious that the flight of the space dogs was merely a prelude to a major step in Russia's manned space program, which seems to have been marking time since Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov took the world's first space walk a year ago. And it left little doubt that the Soviets are doggedly determined to put the first man on the moon...
...interesting, if currently unsolvable, mystery about the flight was its angle of inclination from the equator. Unlike the 65° slant invariably followed in cosmonaut flights, Cosmos 110 had a 51.9° inclination that did not take it nearly so far north and south. This might have been an attempt to avoid the hazards of an emergency landing in remote snowbound areas. The 51° angle, however, was also close to the angle that Russian moon shots have followed while in earth orbit, lending weight to the premise that Veterok and Ugolyok may be the immediate predecessors of the moon...