Cosmonauts Titov and Popovich Playing Basketball
Major Gherman Titov (right) and Lieut. Col. Pavel Popovich, one of the fantastic space twins, playing basketball in Moscow to keep fit for further space journeys. Maybe they're watching that the ball itself doesn't go into orbit! — Keystone
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"Hero's Welcome For Russian Spaceman"
"Hero's Welcome for Russian Spacemen"
Russian cosmonauts Nikolaev and Popovich carry flowers as they walk with Mr. Khruschev on arrival at Moscow airport to receive a hero's welcome. With Mr. Khruschev is one of the cosmonaut's children. In backgr...
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Cosmonaut Popovich Plays With His Daughter
Pavel Popovich, one of the Soviet space twins playing with his daughter Natasha Popovich, 31 went into orbit on the Vostok IV capsule, just as Russia's third spaceman, Major Andrian Nikolayev, completed his first day orbiting the earth.
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"He Is 'Trapped' in the Jewel Tower"
London turned out to give Yuri Gagarin another storming welcome today (13-7-1961) – and the enthusiasm of it kept him a prisoner in the Tower of London for ten minutes. Gagarin had to stay in the Jewel Tower until care arrived because the excited ...
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Londoners Greet American Astronaut
Colonel Frank Borman, commander of America's Apollo 8 flight around the moon, is greeted enthusiastically by Londoners as he arrives in Downing Street, to call on Mr. Harold Wilson, Britain's Prime Minister.
Col. Borman was later invited to Buckin...
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Olivia - The Girl Who Gave Yuri a Kiss
PS: The Girl: Olivia Brayden, pictured last night (12-7-61) after she stole a kiss from Spaceman Yuri on the steps of the Russian Embassy in London Yesterday.
(on right) just laughed for joy. Olivia was waiting with a group of friends at the Sovi...
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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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