Gagarin Greeted By Polish Leaders
Soviet spaceman Yuri Gagarin (left) meets Chairman of the Polish Council of State Aleksander Zawadski (right) and Polish Premier Wladyslaw Gomulka during his visit to Warsaw in 1961.
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Gagarin's Space Ship
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.
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Major Gherman Titov Gets Another Medal
Major Gherman Titov, Russia's No. 2 cosmonaut being greeted enthusiastically by young East Berliners during his recent tour of East Germany.
Major Gherman Titov, Russia's "space-flier" hero, received an enthusiastic welcome when he attended the Y...
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Cosmonauts Conference
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 ...
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Pilot-Cosmonaut Major Titov Speaking by Telephone
August, 1961. Moscow. : Pilot-Cosmonaut Major G. S. Titov Speaking by Telephone with N. S. Khrushchov soon after the successful completion of his cosmic flight.
Photo by TASS Special correspondent
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Russia Puts Man Into Space — And Brings Him Back Alive And Safe
The whole world has been thrilled with the news from Moscow that Major Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin has been rocketed into space and after going into orbit has been brought back to earth and landed safely.
The whole flight lasted for about 108 minutes...
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