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...greatest Soviet surprise was the launch vehicle that in 1961 sent Pioneer Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin into orbit in Vostok I. Although envious Western space experts have long assumed that a single giant booster had been used to launch Vostok and later Soviet spacecraft, the vehicle displayed at Paris consisted of a relatively small two-stage rocket surrounded by a cluster of four conical, strap-on rocket engines. Instead of achieving the major breakthrough in rocket technology believed by the West to have made the Gagarin flight possible, the Russians had simply strapped together enough smaller rocket engines to provide...
Mitchell replaces outgoing co-captains Sise and Pete Gagarin...
Blodgett took ninth in the giant; Greg Peters and Peter Carter finished 12 and 14 in the field of 33. In the slalom Blodgett finished sixth, Peter Carter 11 and Peter Gagarin...
Willy Draper and Peter Gagarin placed 11 and 12 in the Dartmouth slalom. Greg Peters finished 8 in the downhill, where Gagarin landed 17. The best three out of five entries for each team counted in the scoring...
...combined results for the slalom and down hill put Steve Blodgett a half second behind Middlebury's B. McCollom and ahead of Williams skier Dave Rikert. Peter Gagarin finished 13 in the combined results, and Willy Draper, a sophomer placed...