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...odds the most extraordinary date a man and woman ever had. The Soviets one day last week orbited Vostok V, piloted by Air Force Lieut. Colonel Valery Feodorovich Bykovsky, 28. LISTEN WORLD, headlined Izvestia, SOVIET MAN IS AGAIN STORMING THE COSMOS. But this time, Soviet Woman was storming right along. Two days later, Bykovsky was joined in orbit by the first female in space, Lieut. Valentina Vladimirovna Chereshkova, 26, at the controls of Vostok VI. In radio and television transmission to the breathless spectators on the ground, he referred to himself as "The Hawk," while she called herself "The Seagull...
...answer came Sunday morning, 23 hours and 32 minutes after Nikolayev's launching, with the news that Vostok IV was in orbit. The Soviet announcement said that the purpose of the mission was to check "contact" between spacecraft in similar orbits and to gain new knowledge on the effects of sustained weightlessness on the human body. Moscow declared that both cosmonauts were quickly in radio communication as they soared around the globe approximately every 88 minutes, were even able to exchange grins by means of direct television contact. Moreover, the cosmonauts reported to the ground that they could...
...actually accomplish? Though most Western scientists feel certain that the cosmonauts did not try to mate their capsules in an actual docking maneuver, some believe that Nikolayev and Popovich did maneuver their craft toward each other in space. Cleveland's Sohio tracking station said that from its calculations Vostok III and Vostok IV were within a mile of each other at one point, then drifted nearly 2,000 miles apart. "We're convinced that if they had the proper equipment they could have touched," says the station's supervisor. If they did indeed maneuver so close together...
...think that there was any technical breakthrough," said U.S. Space Expert Wernher von Braun. "It does not look like the Russians used any new equipment." Von Braun was sure that Russia was still operating with the same rocket booster used in Vostok I and Vostok II, which is capable of lifting a 14,000-lb. payload. Hugh Dryden, Deputy Administrator of the National Aeronautics & Space Administration, agreed, suggesting that while the Soviet booster was capable of such propaganda space spectaculars as the twin shoot, it was far too small for moon exploration...
...passed back into the cabin as clean water vapor. The dried residue might then be stored in plastic bags. A similar condensation process could be used to dispose of urine. - A Danish Communist paper speculated that the craft weighed &l/2 tons each, compared with the five tons of Vostok...