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...time when the emphasis seems to be placed on the lead in the space race rather than on progress, an informative, unbiased article is, to say the least, refreshing. I thought your article on the Russian cosmonauts, Nikolayev and Popovich [Aug. 24], was both thorough and in keeping with the nature of reporting that we Americans claim we need...
military space program, which had come under heavy fire since the companionable flights of Cosmonauts Popovich and Nikolayev. McNamara asked Zuckert if he felt that the Department of Defense was delaying essential Air Force space projects...
Before an audience of 2,000 correspondents, cameramen and spectators in Moscow University's ornate assembly hall, Russia's space twins, Major Andrian Nikolayev and Lieut. Colonel Pavel Popovich, last week underwent a four-hour earth post-mortem of their memorable exploit in space...
...Nikolayev and Popovich said that they had come to within three miles of each other in space, but had not attempted an actual rendezvous because it was not a part of their assignment. Both spaceships were slightly roomier than those used by Yuri Gagarin and Gherman Titov, but the suspicions of U.S. scientists that Vostoks III and IV weighed approximately the same as the earlier models-some 11,000 lbs.-were confirmed. His craft "was designed for one person," declared Nikolayev. Though Tass had left the impression that the two cosmonauts had ridden their capsules...
...Nausea? The fact that Nikolayev and Popovich were aloft for three and four days respectively and ate solid food also suggested that the Russians may have found a better way to dispose of or to store body wastes.- Equally important was the indication that Russia had licked the problem of space sickness. Gherman Titov's bout of nausea during his ly-orbit flight had raised serious doubts about man's physical ability to withstand the effects of prolonged weightlessness. But last year Soviet scientists toughened the cosmonauts' training program to help them combat space sickness. New whirling...