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Before an audience of 2,000 correspondents, cameramen and spectators in Moscow University's ornate assembly hall, Russia's space twins, Major Andrian Nikolayev and Lieut. Colonel Pavel Popovich, last week underwent a four-hour earth post-mortem of their memorable exploit in space...
...three or four, I still might have become a good man." "I quit running at 95." "It was just as pleasant as a good restaurant." Who said which? These quotes, out of this week's TIME, were said (but not in the same order) by Jawaharlal Nehru, Pavel Popovich, Amos Alonzo Stagg, Matthew J. Culligan, Douglas MacArthur, Niccoló Tucci and Dwight Eisenhower. One way to find out is to try to match the quote with the speaker. Another way is to read this week's TIME...
...over the city and dipped its wings. Moments later, at Vnukovo Airport on the outskirts of Mos cow, the plane came to a stop before a 100-long red carpet stretched over the runway. Out stepped Russia's two newest cosmonauts, Major Andrian Nikolayev, 32, and Lieut. Colonel Pavel Popovich...
...ground, Russia exulted. A Moscow postman's wife gave birth to twin sons and promptly named them Pavel and Andrian. From each capsule, cameras transmitted onto Soviet TV screens what the Russians said were live pictures of the spacemen, who demonstrated weightlessness to the viewers by floating pencils and other objects before the camera lenses...
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...