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Good Old Rules? To start it off, the Soviet Union orbited the earth's first three-passenger spaceship, indicating that the Russians maintain at least a two-year lead over the U.S. The overthrow of Nikita Khrushchev raised anew the question of what kind of Communist enemy the U.S. faces. The election of a new Labor government in Britain posed for the U.S. the problem of establishing a new set of relationships with one of its oldest, staunchest allies. And the news that Communist China had exploded a nuclear device revived vivid fears in the hearts of many peoples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Administration: The Imponderables | 10/23/1964 | See Source »

...spaceship Sunrise that circled the earth for 24 hours last week was the first manned Russian satellite to be orbited in 16 months. But the long, launchless period had been a busy one: the Sunrise flight was eloquent technical testimony to the accomplishments of Soviet space scientists. Items: > The capsule was first to carry more than one passenger. Its three-man crew was a sure promise of multiman space stations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Sunrise with Troika | 10/23/1964 | See Source »

...look at the Sunrise were heavy on its interior decoration and light on its technology. The ship is lined, they said, with "a snow-white, soft, spongelike synthetic fabric." The three seats are close together in a row. The single instrument panel has a clock, a globe showing the spaceship's position, a radio, a telegraph key and many switches and buttons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Sunrise with Troika | 10/23/1964 | See Source »

ROBINSON CRUSOE ON MARS. Science fiction and scientific fact plausibly commingle in this stimulating attempt to imagine the problems of an astronaut who is spaceship-wrecked on Mars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Sep. 11, 1964 | 9/11/1964 | See Source »

...like low-grade coal. On the third day, oxygen gone, he discovers that the rocks release it when they are heated, and in jig time he rigs up a pressure cooker and replenishes his tanks. A few days later, led by the small South American monkey that shared his spaceship, he finds a spring of clear water, and in the water a plant that bears edible tubers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Marooned on the Red Planet | 9/4/1964 | See Source »

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