Word: cospar
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Dates: during 1962-1962
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After the easy, articulate warmth of its own astronaut. Colonel John Glenn, the U.S. was surprised last week by the somewhat uncommunicative attitude of Russian Cosmonaut Gherman Stepanovich Titov. Sent to the U.S. to share his hard-won knowledge of travel in space with Glenn and COSPAR (Committee on Space Research), Titov seemed under orders from home to do nothing of the sort. In press conferences and TV interviews, he was always guarded and reluctant in his replies, though often breezy enough when it came to enjoying the crowds...
Always Perfect. Finally Titov had to face up to the official reason for his trip to Washington: his address before COSPAR. Listeners who hoped that they would hear a Glenn-type account of the Russian's 25 hours in orbit were disappointed. Titov's formal, apparently ghostwritten speech described the Vostok II's equipment only in the most general terms. Even when figures were given, they were carefully selected to tell little. Titov revealed, for instance, that his ship was launched by a multistage booster having six liquid-propellant rocket engines with 600,000 kilograms...
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