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...experimental animal feels well.'' Said a Russian radio announcer: "The chief aim was to further perfect spaceships and to establish on them a system that will provide necessary conditions for man's flight.'' All well and good-but on the basis of announced results, hardly more impressive than the Soviets' own feat of last Aug. 20, when they landed two dogs from orbit in a spaceship weighing almost as much as the current...
Somewhere in the Russian hinterland last week a giant rocket hurled aloft a five-ton spaceship containing two dogs named Pchelka (Little Bee) and Mushka (Little Fly), a quantity of other unspecified plants and animals, and myriad electronic gadgets for keeping radio tab on the passengers...
...trouble. Allied trackers around the world noted that Cosmic Ill's original orbit (only 154.72 miles above the earth at its apogee, 111.94 miles at its perigee) was the lowest yet assumed by any satellite, Russian or American, and dangerously close to the upper atmosphere. After the spaceship had made 18 revolutions around the earth, U.S. and British trackers suddenly lost contact with...
Hours later, Tass conceded that Cosmic III had gone astray. When the signal was given for the return of the spaceship satellite to earth, "the spaceship descended along a noncalculated trajectory" and "burned up on entering the dense layers of the atmosphere...
...post-civilization would be scientifically-oriented as opposed to the literary-dominated civilization of today. He visualized a city-less world approximating "one big Los Angeles." The marks of the new society would be its "larger lines of individual choice" and the self-contained household, that is, a spaceship...