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...lengthening list that reminds the world how far the Russians are ahead in manned-space flight. Items: >First earth satellite, Sputnik I, Oct. 4, 1957. > First satellite to carry an animal, Sputnik II, Nov. 3, 1957. > First photograph of hidden side of the moon, Lunik III, launched Oct. 18, 1959. > First man in space, Yuri Gagarin,. April 12, 1961. > First double launching, Andrian Nikolayev and Pavel Popovich, Aug. 11, Aug. 12, 1962. > First woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova, June 16, 1963. > First three-man satellite, Vladimir Komarov, Konstantin Feoktistov, Boris Yegorov...
...never any secret that large Soviet spaceships such as the three-man Voskhod I were capable of many more actions than they had accomplished. Because of the lack of a big booster to launch them, U.S. man-carrying capsules, including Gemini, are comparatively light and have to be pared to the bone to save fractions of ounces. The Voskhods are roomy, and Soviet designers make the most of their space...
...capsules hit the ground hard. At the ends of other flights, they seem to have stayed on board, as U.S. astronauts do, while the ships landed beneath bigger and better parachutes. Retrorockets have also been used to check a ship's speed as it nears the ground. The three-man spaceship Voskhod I used this method with great success. Its designers were so sure that the soft landing would work that they gave the crew no parachutes or protective clothing...
...meantime, Daniel E. Goldfarh Jr. '66, chairman of the new Harvard Undergraduate Council, appointed a three-man committee earlier this week to meet with representatives of the Radcliffe Government Association and the Administration to work toward continuation of interhouse...
Earlier in the day, a three-man HSA committee concluded the first of a series of secret meetings to draft a public report on the operations of the charter flights agency...