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...shouldn't complain." When she flew into Moscow for her official reception three days later, Valya was greeted by more flowers than anyone remembered ever having seen before in the Russian capital, a bear hug and kiss from Khrushchev, and her best beau, Bachelor Cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev...
...physical checks on the Kearsarge, Gordon Cooper displayed a momentary dizziness upon stepping out onto the deck after 34 hours and 20 minutes of weightless flight through 22 orbits-a space trip surpassed only by the 64-and 48-orbit tandem missions of Soviet Cosmonauts Andrian Nikolayev and Pavel Popovich last August. He had lost 7 Ibs. since his Canaveral liftoff, and in his dehydrated state, he gulped down four glasses of pineapple juice and six glasses of milk...
There were other big decisions and stunning achievements. In space, the U.S. creditably launched not only John Glenn but Telstar and Mariner II, but it was a team of anonymous Russian scientists who made the year's biggest space news by lofting the space twins, Nikolayev and Popovich, on record-breaking, three-day tandem orbits of the earth...
Popovich said that Nikolayev's capsule "looked like a very small moon in the distance." Vision was so clear aloft, added Nikolayev, that he could see the main streets of cities on earth; at times, he added, moonlight flooded into his cabin, illuminating the switches before him. Popovich said that each time he finished eating, he switched on a vacuum cleaner to clear away the lint from his paper napkin that hung weightless in the cabin. In a personal experiment with weightlessness, Popovich said that he had carried a bottle half full of water aloft with him. The water...
...Nikolayev admitted to some misgivings during his descent from orbit: "Out of the window, I saw smoke, then flames, which changed from red to orange to yellow to blue. You hear loud crackling and you begin to wonder if the ship's outer covering isn't about to slough off. As the deceleration forces decreased, it became like riding a cart on a bad road." When he landed, Nikolayev said, "my first inclination was to kiss the earth of our motherland...