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"Space Man Rings Wife" Astronaut Leroy Gordon Cooper, 36-year-old Air Force Major talks to his wife by phone from the U.S. aircraft carrier Kearsarge after he had been picked up by the carrier on the completion of his 22-orbit space flight. After ...
Daily Mirror
Col. Pavel Beley and Col. Aleksel Leonov
"Crew of Vokshod-II" Moscow, USSR: Russia has launched two cosmonauts in a Vokshod-II space ship today. Pictured in Red Square prior to their flight recently are the crew: Col.Pavel Belyaev (left) commander of the Vokshod-II and second pilot Lt. C...
Fotokhronika TASS
Picture by Radio • London Bureau Moscow USSR: A Soviet Radio correspondent is seen talking to cosmonauts P. Belyaev (left) A. Leonov (centre) on their arrival at the cosmodrome after the historic flight in the Vokshod-2, in which and out of which ...
United Press International (UK) Ltd.
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 ...
United Press International (UK) Ltd.
Gagarin Steps from Plane After Space-Flight
Moscow: Major Yuri Gagarin, the world's first spaceman, steps from a plane, smiling broadly, after his successful flight through the stratosphere. This official picture was released by the Soviet Union tonight. He is dressed in a conventional flyi...
United Press International (UK) Ltd.
Moscow USSR: Today's inside view of "Vostok" Sputnik-ship's cabin. 1. Pilot's controls; 2. Instrument board and globe; 3. The television camera; 4. Pepthole with optic orientator; 5. The steering rod; 6. A radio set and 7., a food container. 24th...
United Press International (UK) Ltd.
Gherman Titov and His Daughter
Now lookee here, you cannot take off just yet. Wait a little longer till your limbs are stronger. And then you Tanyusha can join cosmonaut father Gherman Titov in his space flights. Titov, it will be recalled, was the second Russian man into space...
Daily Mirror
Moscow, USSR: Seen at yesterday's reception given at the Grand Kremlin Palace here are members of Major Gherman Titov's family. Major Titov is pictured fourth from right, with his wife, Tamara and Soviet Premier Nikita Krushchev (third from right)...
United Press International (UK) Ltd.
Moscow, USSR: major Gherman Titov (right) chats happily to Mr. Krushchev as they walk across the tarmac at Vnukovo Airport here today, after Russia's second spaceman received a tumultuous welcome from hundreds of thousands of Russians. (9th August...
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