Word: strelka
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...years since NASA took over the Mercury program, its target date for getting a man into orbit and back has steadily shifted: from late 1959 to mid-1960 to late 1960 to early 1961 to mid-1961 and now to late 1961. Meanwhile, by sending the dogs Belka and Strelka into orbit last August and recovering them, the Russians have shown that it should not be much more complicated to put an astronaut into space any time they are willing to risk a man instead of a couple of mutts. "I would say that you could wake up any morning...
...Mercury's slippage is the trouble that underlies the U.S.'s efforts in heavyweight space feats, despite all the U.S. achievements in scientific exploration of space. The Russians have rockets with far greater thrust than the U.S.'s biggest. The space capsule that carried Belka and Strelka weighed five tons. The most powerful U.S. rocket available, the Air Force's Atlas, can at best put only a one-ton payload into orbit. What has delayed Mercury more than any other factor is the slow, painstaking miniaturization involved in devising an adequate capsule weighing only...
...farther out than the Russians' two dogs, Strelka and Belka, who orbited the earth in August and were recovered safely...
Winding up a three-month tour of the Soviet Union, thicket-topped Pianist Van Cliburn, 26, beyond dispute the Russians' favorite American, played, sang and wept through a televised farewell concert, also posed with two other TV stars, Belka and Strelka, the Soviet space dogs. Presented with his tour earnings of roughly $8,000, Cliburn, not permitted to take the money back to the U.S., passed up a chance to shoot the wad on a luxurious...
...environment of space. Says Martin Co.'s Robert Demoret: "The important thing is to determine whether he can function effective, ly once he is up there. And that can only be done with any certainty by putting him out in space." The safe return of Russian Space Mutts Strelka and Belka apparently ensures that man will suffer no physiological ill effects in near space -but the psychophysiological impact of zero gravity and extreme isolation has yet to be tested on a human being under actual space conditions. Only minimum shielding against cosmic radiation will be needed on manned earth...