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Died. Sergei Korolev, 59, long-rumored head of the Soviet space program, now identified by Tass as the hitherto anonymous designer of the 1957 Sputnik and 1959 Lunik satellites as well as the Vostok and Voskhod spacecrafts used in the world's first manned flight (Yuri Gagarin, in 1961) and first space walk (Alexei Leonov, last March); of complications following surgery; in Moscow...
...other thrusters, Cooper used up considerable fuel, leaving only 17 Ibs. for the rest of the trip. Ground control suggested that Cooper might indulge in "a couple of rolls and a loop" to celebrate when Gemini 5 cracked the time-in-space record held by Russia's Vostok 5. Cooper said he could not spare the fuel-and besides, "That's all we have been doing all day is rolling and rolling...
...Improved Vostok. All of which is little help in deciding whether the Sunrise was entirely new or merely an improved version of the standard one-man Vostok-type spaceships. These are believed to weigh 10,000 Ibs., which is more than three times as much as the Mercury capsule (3,000 Ibs.) that orbited U.S. Astronaut Leroy Gordon Cooper for 34 hours and 20 minutes; they could surely be modified to hold three men for a 24-hour flight. Senator Anderson suspects that the Sunrise weighed 15,000 Ibs., but even at that weight, it could be orbited by launching...
...space capsule, Vostok VI, "Valya" was still the compleat Soviet woman. Her space suit was embroidered with a snow-white dove, and she had had her hair done before blastoff. Once a tomboy, she now has an admitted weakness for spike heels, stylish clothes, and a perfume called Red Moscow. From space she radioed ground control: "Please tell Mamma not to worry." Once, when ground scientists lost contact with "Seagull" (Valya's orbital call name), they hastily ordered her cosmic companion in Vostok V, Lieut. Colonel Valery Feodorovich Bykovsky, to try and rouse her. "Sorry, I was having...
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...