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...months before Luna 15 was launched, rumors had circulated in Moscow that Soviet scientists would in one way or another try to steal some thunder from Apollo. Speculation intensified last month when Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov told Japanese newsmen that he expected his country to exhibit rocks from the moon-gathered by an unmanned spacecraft-at the 1970 world's fair in Osaka. Three weeks ago, reports were heard in Moscow that two earlier versions of Luna 15 had exploded prematurely-one on the launch pad early in April, the other shortly after launch on June...
...reports were strongly phrased and probably exaggerated. The Chinese employed their Korea-proven "human wave" attacks-and Moscow claims that Russian casualities were heavy, although exact totals have not been released so far. A Soviet counterattack, using armored cars, reportedly cleared the island. Soviet Colonel Demokrat V. Leonov was killed, and the scale of fighting indicates that both sides probably suffered substantially...
...Russians, with their huge booster rockets, have been less concerned about weight; they have employed a two-gas system from the beginning of their manned-space program. It has proved awkward in at least one of their space missions. Before Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov could leave Voskhod II for his space walk, he had to breathe pure oxygen (to rid his body of dissolved nitrogen and avoid the possibility of bends). He then entered an air lock, sealed his suit, gradually lowered its pressure to about 3 lbs. per sq. in. (so that it would be less inflated and more flexible...
...coming in." At one point, McDivitt protested: "Hey, you smeared my window you dirty dog." Replied the floating White: "Yep." He finally returned to the capsule after a 20-minute stroll- during which he maneuvered far more freely than Soviet Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov had in a ten-minute space walk three months before. Said he: "I felt red, white and blue all over...
Atlantic Anomaly. Boosted by the Agena's thrust, the Gemini-Agena combination reached a maximum height of 476 miles, carrying Astronauts Young and Collins to the highest altitude ever reached by man-well above the 354-mile record set by Russian Cosmonauts Aleksei Leonov and Pavel Belyayev during the 1965 flight of Voskhod II. In its lofty elliptical orbit, Gemini-Agena passed several times through the "South Atlantic Anomaly," an area where the lower portion of the Van Allen radiation belt dips to within a few hundred miles of the earth. Though the astronauts were exposed to radiation...