Word: gherman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Born. To Lieut. Colonel Gherman Titov, 29, Soviet Cosmonaut; and Tamara Dasilyevna, 27; their third child, second daughter; in Leningrad...
Born. To Major Gherman Titov, 28, Soviet cosmonaut, pilot of the world's second manned space flight (August 1961), and Tamara Titov, 25: their first daughter, second child (a son born in 1960 died in infancy); in Moscow...
Nikolayev and Popovich said that they had come to within three miles of each other in space, but had not attempted an actual rendezvous because it was not a part of their assignment. Both spaceships were slightly roomier than those used by Yuri Gagarin and Gherman Titov, but the suspicions of U.S. scientists that Vostoks III and IV weighed approximately the same as the earlier models-some 11,000 lbs.-were confirmed. His craft "was designed for one person," declared Nikolayev. Though Tass had left the impression that the two cosmonauts had ridden their capsules...
...Wings of Song. When Moscow Radio reported that Nikolayev had blasted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Central Asia, scientists in the West could only wonder what the Russians were up to this time. No Russian cosmonaut had been sent into space in the year and five days since Gherman Titov's 17-orbit flight; surely, Russia had not waited all that time merely to duplicate Titov's feat...
...that Nikolayev and Popovich were aloft for three and four days respectively and ate solid food also suggested that the Russians may have found a better way to dispose of or to store body wastes.- Equally important was the indication that Russia had licked the problem of space sickness. Gherman Titov's bout of nausea during his ly-orbit flight had raised serious doubts about man's physical ability to withstand the effects of prolonged weightlessness. But last year Soviet scientists toughened the cosmonauts' training program to help them combat space sickness. New whirling and loop...