Word: falcon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people jammed in the square below. Then it was time for speeches; sure enough, the Russians could not resist the chance to turn space prowess into political profit. "The group flight in outer space is one more vivid proof of the superiority of socialism over capitalism," said Nikolayev, or "Falcon," as he called himself during his globe-circling orbits. Added Popovich. whose orbital name was "Golden Eagle": "Across the ocean, the enemies of peace are fanning war hysteria and striving to turn the expanses of space into an atomic testing ground...
Minutes later, Nikolayev radioed in. "This is Falcon. Confirming landing at 6sth orbit. The pressure in the cabin is i.i, the temperature 11° (Centigrade, equal to 52° F.), and the humidity...
Kiss on Earth. The Falcon landed first, at 9:55 Wednesday morning, in the hill and desert country near Karaganda, a Kazakhstan city 1,500 miles southeast of Moscow; he had completed 64 orbits, and in four days had traveled 1,663,000 miles, 3^ times the distance to the moon and back. Six minutes later, after 48 orbits and 1,247,000 miles, Popovich landed some miles away in the same region. Both men apparently stayed on board their capsules all the way down, unlike Titov, who parachuted to earth after completing his flight. Helicopters picked...
...first cosmonaut to blast off was Major Andrian Grigorievich Nikolaev, 32, a country boy from the Volga valley who had been the standby for both Yuri Gagarin and Gherman Titov on their previous orbital flights. Soon after he was aloft in his spaceship Vostok III, Nikolaev, or "Falcon," as he called himself during radio transmission to the earth, was in touch with Soviet tracking stations and trawlers at sea packed with electronic gear, including some close by the U.S. east coast. U.S. and other Western radio monitors heard Nikolaev's voice loud and clear. Every 88 minutes, Vostok...
FORD, for the first time, will offer Falcon and Comet convertibles. Falcon sedans will take on the Thunderbird's crisp roof line. The intermediate Fairlane and Meteor will add station wagon models and both will change their grilles, the Fairlane from flat to concave and the Meteor to a forward thrust. The standard-size Galaxie will have its massive circular taillights set into cylindrically sculptured rear fenders in a kind of twin jet effect. So that customers can tell a Mercury from a Ford, the Monterey will boast a reverse-sloping rear window that can be opened and shut...