Russian Spacemen Return to Earth
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The two Russian spacemen climbed safely out of their spacecraft on Russian soil this morning, completing the most daring journey in all history. Their spaceships landed "precisely in the planned area." Both were "...
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Three Cosmonauts Launched into Orbit By the Soviet Union
Picture by Radio • London Bureau
In Orbit Today
Moscow : The three cosmonauts who were launched into orbit by the Soviet Union today aboard SOYUZ-5 to join Vladimir Shatalov and his SOYUZ-4 to form a company of four men in space - the greatest nu...
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N.S. Khrushchov and L.I. Brezhnev with Titov's Family
Photo No. 490856
August, 1961
Moscow
Moscow. At the reception given at the Grand Kremlin Palace August 9, 1961
Photo: N.S. Khrushchov and L.I. Brezhnev with members of Gherman Titov's family.
Photo by V. Savostyanov and A. Konkov
Fotokhronika TASS
Cosmonauts Shot At
Soviet Cosmonauts from left to right V. Shatalov, A. Elyseev, E. Khrunov, and B. Volynov, driving through streets in the flower-bedecked car recently on their way to a Kremlin Awards ceremony, were shot at by a young man, who fired two pistols at ...
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Soviet Russia's Four Cosmonauts
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UPI / TASS London Bureau
Moscow: Soviet Russia's four cosmonauts, right to left, Lieut. Col. Pavel Popovich; Major Andrian Nikolayev; Major Yuri Gagarin, and Major Gherman Titov pose together on the Mausoleum Tribune during t...
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London Gave Yuri Gagarin a Great Reception
London gave Yuri Gagarin the world's first man to space a great reception today (11-7-1961). There were cheers and applause at London Airport. And more cheers as the twenty-seven-year-old Soviet spaceman drove to the Russian Embassy in London befo...
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