Word: gagarin
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...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...
...cosmonauts exchanged congratulations, then held a three-way conversation with Yuri Gagarin at the control center down on the ground...
...nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth." At that moment the U.S. was behind in the race to get men into space. The Russians had already shot Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on an orbit around the earth; blazing a trail for future space travelers, they had taken pictures of the unseen face of the moon. U.S. Astronaut Alan Shepard had been forced to settle for a brief 302-mile arc that was sadly short of orbit...
...orbiting astronauts, starting with Yuri Gagarin, saw a bright blue band around the earth. Carpenter looked more carefully through a special filter and saw two bands, the lower one made up of many colors-red, blue, white and a little green. The pictures that he took of the two bands are being analyzed at M.I.T., where they are considered important for the design of instruments to sense the edge of the earth and guide the return of home-bound future spaceships...
...little that they had not already calculated for themselves. The same was true of Titov's revelation that, against instructions, he left the Vostok II's portholes uncovered during re-entry and saw flame and molten material from the heat shield wash over them. His predecessor, Yuri Gagarin, had done the same thing. Titov also disclosed, not very informatively, that he had controlled his craft himself during two of his 17 orbits...