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...both orbits were fast decaying toward the upper edge of the earth's atmosphere, where the capsules had to be brought down or run the risk of fiery destruction. Up flashed a message from the Russian ground control station to Popovich: "Since your meter shows low temperature and humidity, and considering that you have completed your mission, make preparations to land on the 49th orbit. Check your ship's interior safety belt, the safety belt key, the seat catapult switch and the condition of your space suit. The wind velocity at the landing site is seven to nine...
...desert country near Karaganda, a Kazakhstan city 1,500 miles southeast of Moscow; he had completed 64 orbits, and in four days had traveled 1,663,000 miles, 3^ times the distance to the moon and back. Six minutes later, after 48 orbits and 1,247,000 miles, Popovich landed some miles away in the same region. Both men apparently stayed on board their capsules all the way down, unlike Titov, who parachuted to earth after completing his flight. Helicopters picked up the two cosmonauts and ferried them off to a gay landing reception...
...heavily bearded spacemen munched watermelon and bantered with a mob of scientists, doctors and Soviet newsmen. Feeling the heat in the crowded resthouse, Popovich said, "I must admit that it was more comfortable in space." Added Nikolayev with a grin: "Yes, fewer people and less noise." Khrushchev telephoned congratulations from his Black Sea vacation spot at Yalta, told Popovich that he had seen a picture of his bushily mustached father in Pravda. "Your father curls his mustaches like Taras Bulba," said Nikita. "What a Cossack! He seems to be saying, 'Give me a horse and saber...
Widow's Sob. Not a Cossack but a sugar refinery worker, Roman Popovich, 57, wept with joy outside his home in the Ukraine in front of the photographers who gathered to catch his reaction at the news of his son's landing. In the Chuvash Republic, Anna Nikolayev, 62, a widowed peasant woman, tugged at her handkerchief and sobbed. Newspapers all over the world carried the photos...
Songs in the Capsule. After the war, Popovich worked as a herdsman in the fields, later won his diploma at a technical school in the Urals by designing the reconstruction of the dormitory in which he lived. He entered the air force in 1951, became a Communist Party member in 1957. While on duty in Siberia, he met his future wife, Maria, a woodcutter's daughter and an accomplished amateur stunt pilot, at a flying club near his station. Married in 1955, they have a six-year-old daughter, Natasha...