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...delegation in Paris and go out among the friendly peoples of the earth to share with them the excitement and thrills you experienced," said Johnson. Still smiling, McDivitt and White-accompanied by their wives-hurried off to the Paris Air Show, where the Russians had captured all eyes with Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, and a huge 250-ton transport. Vice President Hubert Humphrey escorted the U.S. space twins and was himself scheduled to meet with Charles de Gaulle. No sooner had the group landed at Le Bourget airfield, where Charles Lindbergh touched down after flying the Atlantic...
...world how far the Russians are ahead in manned-space flight. Items: >First earth satellite, Sputnik I, Oct. 4, 1957. > First satellite to carry an animal, Sputnik II, Nov. 3, 1957. > First photograph of hidden side of the moon, Lunik III, launched Oct. 18, 1959. > First man in space, Yuri Gagarin,. April 12, 1961. > First double launching, Andrian Nikolayev and Pavel Popovich, Aug. 11, Aug. 12, 1962. > First woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova, June 16, 1963. > First three-man satellite, Vladimir Komarov, Konstantin Feoktistov, Boris Yegorov...
...snow, with the aid of parachutes. Newspapers described its flaming descent through the atmosphere and discussed the loss of radio contact when an antenna burned off. But all this is normal. It was the long silence after landing that was ominous. Then word came that the cosmonauts were safe; Yuri Gagarin, Russia's space pioneer, talked to them by telephone and reported that "they are completely healthy." Whatever had gone wrong on the last, dangerous trajectory that led back to earth had apparently not detracted from the overall accomplishment of that spectacular flight...
...Yuri Alckseyevitch Asseyev, a former associate professor of Philosophy at the University of Leningrad, had been a patient in McLean Hospital, a mental institution in Belmont, since his attempted jump onto the tracks of the Harvard Square MTA station...
...Yuri Alekseyevitch Asseyev, the Soviet exchange student promised political asylum in the United States last month, apparently made a second attempt on his life in Cambridge Saturday...