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...because I am so happy to be on the ice, and second of all for the people who need the money,” said Baiul. Even though 12 years have passed since she won the gold, Baiul maintains a busy schedule, training with longtime coach Valentin Nikolaev, who prepared her for the 1994 Olympics, and traveling “about 300 days a year.” “My message is stick to what you love to do, and that’s what I do,” said Baiul. “Sometimes it?...
...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...
Black, Black Sky. Exactly 23 hours and 32 minutes after Nikolaev's blastoff, just as he was breaking Titov's record by completing his 18th orbit, Moscow announced triumphantly that a second cosmonaut, Ukrainian-born Lt. Col. Pavel Romanovich Popovich, 31, had been hurled into space in a capsule called Vostok IV. Within an hour, the two space craft had established radio contact with each other, and Nikolaev reported to control headquarters that he was watching Vostok IV through his porthole. Plotting the radio signals, scientists outside Russia estimated that the two space craft were 74.5 miles apart...
...hear you excellently," said Nikolaev. "My spirits too are excellent...
...people until each flight was safely underway. Once the announcements were made, Muscovites gathered by the hundreds in the streets to listen to loudspeakers and radios that blared from parked cars and windowsills. Soviet television screens picked up what Russia claimed were live telecasts from the space capsules. Nikolaev at first seemed in a trance during his showing, eyes closed, hands motionless. Later he came to life before the eyes of viewers, twisting dials, pushing buttons. Popovich was seen more clearly as he made entries in his log book...