Word: iii
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...astronaut aboard, went out of control and was not recovered. Cosmic Ship II, launched in August with animal passengers, was safely lowered to earth, and Nikita Khrushchev boasted that the launching was "a step to man's flight into space." To a newsman's question why Cosmic III weighed 82 Ibs. less than Cosmic II, Khrushchev replied: "It's big enough for a man to eat his dinner inside." It was also roughly twice the size of the biggest satellite that the U.S. has yet managed to fire into orbit...
...Cosmic III was soon in trouble. Allied trackers around the world noted that Cosmic Ill's original orbit (only 154.72 miles above the earth at its apogee, 111.94 miles at its perigee) was the lowest yet assumed by any satellite, Russian or American, and dangerously close to the upper atmosphere. After the spaceship had made 18 revolutions around the earth, U.S. and British trackers suddenly lost contact with...
Hours later, Tass conceded that Cosmic III had gone astray. When the signal was given for the return of the spaceship satellite to earth, "the spaceship descended along a noncalculated trajectory" and "burned up on entering the dense layers of the atmosphere...
...Reporter article also named Fulton ("Buddy") Lewis III as one of the House Un-American Activties Committee staff members who collected newsreel films by subpoena from West Coast television stations
Finalists in the Class Marshal election yesterday are: Nile L. Albright, Thomas Blodgett, William R. Driver III, Martin , Newell Flather, R. Bruce Bruce B. MacIntyre, Charles DuF. Claude E. Welch, Jr., and H. Zagat...