Word: orbiter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Their arrival triggered a riotous celebration in honor of another Soviet space first: the dual-manned orbit that proved the possibility of teamwork in space...
...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...
...answer came Sunday morning, 23 hours and 32 minutes after Nikolayev's launching, with the news that Vostok IV was in orbit. The Soviet announcement said that the purpose of the mission was to check "contact" between spacecraft in similar orbits and to gain new knowledge on the effects of sustained weightlessness on the human body. Moscow declared that both cosmonauts were quickly in radio communication as they soared around the globe approximately every 88 minutes, were even able to exchange grins by means of direct television contact. Moreover, the cosmonauts reported to the ground that they could...
...Tuesday, tension and fatigue aloft were plainly beginning to wear the cosmonauts down. On his fourth day in orbit, Nikolayev blew up at a Soviet tracking station that had given him the wrong time. "You were wrong by five minutes," he said, in understandable anger. "Please give me a new time recording now. Can't you hear what I say? Start the timing, for heaven's sake...
Before spry old Busta went off to Montego Bay, where he drank champagne, danced the twist and played the banjo at an all-night post-independence bash, he made it clear that Jamaica will remain in the orbit of the free world. "We are pro-American," he said staunchly. But he ducked questions about possible trade and diplomatic relations with Cuba, only 90 miles to the north. Perhaps he had in mind an old Jamaican proverb: "No cuss alligator' long mout' till you cross riber...