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Triumphant music blared across the land. Russia's radios saluted the morning with the slow, stirring beat of the patriotic song, How Spacious Is My Country. Then came the simple announcement that shattered forever man's ancient isolation on earth: "The world's first spaceship, Vostok [East], with a man on board, has been launched on April 12 in the Soviet Union on a round-the-world orbit...
...flight is proceeding normally. I feel well." At 10:15 he checked in over Africa: "The flight is normal. I am withstanding well the state of weightlessness." At 11:10 a report was broadcast that at 10:25 Gagarin had completed one circuit of the earth and that the spaceship's braking rocket had been fired. This was the perilous point when the Vostok, its nose white-hot from friction with the earth's atmosphere, began its plunge to a landing. All Russia waited nervously-and the government-controlled radio milked every moment for suspense. Not until...
Space can be mastered only by a careful, step-by-step campaign. Last week the Russians took a forward step by launching another of their five-ton "spaceship" satellites and landing it successfully. This one, said Moscow, carried a dog named Zvezdochka (Little Star) and other small creatures. The flight gives the Soviet man-in-space program a three-out-of-five record of success in orbiting manworthy satellites and bringing them back to earth safely. If a Soviet astronaut had been on board last week, he would presumably have survived...
...time is not far off, said Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev last week, "when the first spaceship with a man on board will soar into space." He and his audience assumed, of course, that the first spaceman will be a Soviet astronaut riding a Soviet satellite. Most U.S. authorities tend to agree, admitting that the Soviet man-in-space program is well ahead of the U.S.'s. The Russians might well be able to put a man into orbit this week and bring him back in reasonably good condition. The five-ton satellites in which they have orbited dogs weigh...
Plant Pathologist Arthur James Pil grim, chief of Boeing's Life Support Systems Research, is proud of his group's success, yet he has no illusions that algae will join the crews of spaceships for quite some time. In principle, algae are ideal, requiring nothing but the sunlight filtered through a spaceship's windows to regen erate oxygen and dispose of CO2. But they demand a lot of water to live happily; the Boeing system contains 80 gal lons, weighing more than 600 Ibs. Pilgrim is sure that this prohibitive weight can be reduced drastically...