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...when he was stationed with the Royal Air Force in West Berlin. The Soviets equipped Prime with a miniature camera, a briefcase with a secret compartment, coding and decoding materials, money (a rather modest ?10,000 over the years) and the names of two contacts, Igor and Valya. After leaving the R.A.F., Prime returned to London later that year to work for the Joint Technical Language Service. He continued passing secret information to the Soviets even after resigning his government post at Cheltenham in 1977. Prime's final meeting with Soviet agents came in November 1981, when, he said...
...earth, married fellow Cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayeev, 34, last November, a beaming Khrushchev told the couple, "If you have a baby, the gifts won't fail to come." Last week, the lobby of Moscow's Maternity Institute was filled with proud citizens bearing flowers and remembrances, as "Valya" presented her husband with the world's first cosmonipper
Missed Rendezvous. Over their radios, Valya and Valery sang songs of friendship to each other, flashed "best wishes to the industrious American people" and "warm greetings to the multimillioned Chinese." Loosening their harnesses, both cosmonauts performed calisthenics while floating weightlessly in their cabins. But though the two Vostoks passed within three miles of each other, their orbital paths were so divergent that they could not rendezvous. Since U.S. scientists had fully expected the two capsules to link up in space, they speculated that Soviet scientists had made a launching miscalculation...
Three days and 48 orbits after takeoff, Valya re-entered the atmosphere, was ejected from her capsule and floated to earth by parachute near a small village in Kazakhstan; slowed by another parachute, the empty Vostok VI landed near by. Two hours and 46 minutes later and some 500 miles away, Bykovsky landed similarly in the meadow of a collective farm after a record 81 orbits and 119 hours aloft. But Bykovsky was all but forgotten in the furor over Valya. Television commentators described her "cornflower blue eyes," and peasants showered her with bouquets. Overcome by her welcome, Valya broke...
Paper Dolls. Though Russia's second double shot added little new to space technology, the fact that Valya was not a pilot and admittedly was mechanically unsophisticated raised the question of why U.S. astronauts all must be skilled test pilots. The answer from NASA officials: use of test pilots permits the elimination of space-consuming automatic equipment in the cramped capsules. But some authorities are convinced that young scientists would be far more effective in observing and analyzing unexpected space flight phenomena.-Says Clinton Anderson, chairman of the Senate Space Committee: "The Russians have proved to us that...