FIRST MAN IN SPACE
Soviet Plans
Reported
(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright l (Rec. 9 p.m.) LONDON. Oct. 12.
The Soviet Union will shoot the first man into space in the (northern) spring, according to the “Daily Herald’s” Moscow correspondent. Soviet scientists were confident that they could send a manned rocket 200 miles up and bring the pilot back to earth alive, he said.
The multi-stage rocket that would make the flight was undergoing final tests at a closelyguarded base in the barren wastes of Central Asia. The correspondent said a team of 20 tough young spacemenlike the Americans preparing for Project Mercury—have been training for more than two years. Everyone was now reported fit and ready to bear the immense strain of launching and supersonic re-entry into the earth’s atmosphere. Unlike the glare of publicity surrounding the Americans, complete secrecy shrouded the training of the Soviet spacemen, the “Daily Herald” correspondent said. Their base was in the great desert area of Uzbekistan, about 2500 miles from Moscow.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29024, 13 October 1959, Page 17
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