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Friday, October 6, 1967 Griffin Daily News
DECADE
IN • i
SPACE
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IWO The a Mav 15 (USSR) March 11—(US) Feb. 12— Feb. 20—(US) Venus flyby. Oct. 12—(USSR)
1,120 lbs. A Mayls--JUSW) (USSR) Friendship-?. Voskhod-1.
!-®' k ®' k '* 2 925 lbs’ Solar orbit. Sputnik-8. First John Glenn, first Vladimir
first earth 2,925 lbs. rebe American 4QIJR Komarov,
first 9 ct transmission Radio fails. m orbit. IMgJ Konstantin
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(USSR) Vostok-1. R«»R«-4. Firtt Moy 15—(US)
c * vr. Aoril I—(US) Yuri Gagarin, American Faith-7. First . ™ree-man
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explosion at t nn 2_fUSSR) April 13—(US) Suborbital Scott Carpenter. Bykovsky. bbbbb««
launching. First TransiMß. flight. Alan July 10-(US) J un e 16—(USSR) IDK
successful First Shepard ,n . Telestar-1. First Vostok-6. |3Qhl
HIFfl | unflr Drobe navigational Mercury capsule. communications Valentina
1958 «»». July 21—(US) Tereshkova, March 18-
■llllll _ „ Aug. 11—(US) Suborbital Aug. 11—(USSR) first woman (USSR)
Jan. 31—(US) (USSR)’Lunik-2. p’TTir?' VirnKum Vostok-3. •« s P Qce - Belyayev,
Explorer-1. Fint lunar Fl ““ , "" e ul’.t. Alexei liir.'
First American impact. recovery. Aug* 6-4 USSR) Nikolayev. __ Leonov takes
M — Vostok-2. V~ first space walk.
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Soviet and American manned flights
followed each other in rapid succes-
Sion, scoring first after first. But at
tention was shifting to more distant
goals. First the moon. Soviets and
then- Americans scored with lunar
orbits, crash landings and soft touch
downs. Although always second, the
American achievements—startlingly
detailed photographs of the lunar I
surface—were invariably superior. —Q—
Quickly turning his expanding
knowledge of space to practical
earthly use, man has launched
communication and weather
satellites and enriched research and
industry through technological fallout
from the space programs. More
wonders are to come. A manned
landing on the moon, a laboratory in
space, more and more sophisticated
probes of the planets—Venus, Mars
and beyond. Man has come far in 10
years, yet has only just-begun.
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\ It began with a shock felt around the world. Oct. 4, 1957. The Soviet
\ \ \ Union launched Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite, to open the
\ \ \ space age and add a new dimension to great power rivalry—conquest
\ \ \ of the cosmos. Not until Jan. 31, 1958. after one humiliating failure,
\ \ \ was the United States in the race with Explorer I. Late as it was and
\ \ \ weighing only 18 pounds to Sputnik's 184, the American satellite
\ \ made the great scientific discovery of the new era—the Van Allen ra-
\ \ diotion belts surrounding the earth. But the Soviets were to hold their
X \ lead during the early years. On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin, the Ma-
• u \ gellan of the space age, orbited the earth in Vostok I. Almost a year
O- t > iater, Feb. 20, 1962, John Glenn became the first American in space,
completing three orbits in q Mercury capsule.
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March 23—(US) Dec. 15—(US) than 11,000 Edwin Aldrin,
Gemini-3. Gemini-6. surface photos James Lovell.
Virgil Grissom, Walter Schirra, relayed to earth.
John Young. Thomas Stafford. J une 3—(US) •■■•■»
June 3—(US) Gemini-9
Gemini-4. Thomas Stafford, |T|n>
James McDivitt, Eugene Cernan. ■ "
S^ rd - W r te ' July !&—(US) Jan. 27-(US)
White is first Feb 3__(USSR) Gemini-10. Flash fire in
American Luna-9. First .J o**" 0 **" 7®,“"?' capsule kills
space walker. lunar soft Michael Collins. first Apollo
July 14—(US) landing, first Hookups with crew ,
Mariner-4. photos from two target Virgil Grissom,
Mars flyby. surface. vehicles. Edward White,
First surface March 1— Au «-10—<US) Roger Chaffee.
photos. (USSR) Planetary L “ n " r April 24-
Aug. 21—(US) probe crashes First U.S. lunar (USSR) Soyuz-1.
Gem ini-5. on Venus. orbit. Vladimir
Gordon Cooper, Morch Sept. 12-(US) Komarov
Charles Conrad. Gemmi-11. dies in
Dec. 4—(US) N-ji A rms t r o na Charles Conrad, crash landing.
Gemini-7. Richard Gordon. First space
Frank Borman, Flrs) . j nr L:_ ’ New altitude death.
James Lovell, docking October-
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(330 hours First lunar orbit. Lunar Orbiter-2. Planetary probes
. n °ur»' Landing sites of both nations
35 minutes). June 2—(US) photographed. scheduled for
Rendezvous in Surveyor-1. ” '. Venus bypass in
space with... Lunar soft mi d-October.
l landing, more Gemini-IZ.
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Virgil Grissom
Edward White
Roger Chaffee
who were to have
been the first
Apollo crew
became instead
the first martyrs of
the space age in a
flash fire that
swept their capsule
Jan. 27, 1967.
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Within months
came the first
reported Soviet
death, the
crash landing
of Cosmonaut
Vladimir Komarov
on April 24.
As two nations
have shared the
achievements,
so they share
the tragedy in I
man's journey Q
to the stars. |