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Friday, October 6, 1967 Griffin Daily News DECADE IN • i SPACE IBE7 .L at n lite - 18 Oct 6—(USSR) Aug. 20—(USSR) Gherman Titov. Aug. iSuSSR) ffiflll 19931 J D,s s. < ? v,rs Lunik-3. Circles Sputnik-5. Aug.,,23—(US) Vostok-4. |t9VRGL ■■•■■• Van Allen moon an j Satellite carrying Ranger moon p ave | Popovich. ■■iwOTr Oct. 4—(USSR) On i. • photographs animals probe fails. , , IIC . .. ~ W** Z"bn- ,««, ar ! l /ncx VanauflH< 1 Walter Schirra. first close-up N 1960 1991 1992 Nov. 3—(USSR) pear-shaped. ■ ■•■• ■ ■• ■ ■■• Mi successful ®" moon - 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 todieinsoace I P,OBMr - 1 l ; record of 23 April 12- April 26—(US) ■■■■■■• Feoktistov, (USSR) Vostok-1. R«»R«-4. Firtt Moy 15—(US) c * vr. Aoril I—(US) Yuri Gagarin, American Faith-7. First . ™ree-man *CL“ WEB ,iß X ni ’ -ft ST ™3" -K. 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. j^EEfEtfir j ; <t Wrw in ■ 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. 9 \ \\ xltgltesy.--z \ \ \ \ 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. oE«^=w-W MMMMi mO&cJe saiTOMK wmWstoHl JR mSTOTOi--, « «iMiTOTOa Jft i.'TOflTOfr" 1 x < F?BI jpOMk^|g , t'IW.A 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- 2 !r M rb ' tS j F March 31 850 m ' le *' (US) M ® rin er-5. to d7te° (USSR (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. ** Wfck^* - /m Az •. : >' /; ‘‘©|h Ml * ra z J 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. fw M? 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. |