RUSSIA’S SPUTNIK
6 No Men On
Board’
(Bee. 11 p.m.) MOSCOW, February 10.
A Soviet scientist today firmly denied Westen; speculation that there might be a man aboard the Soviet Union’s giant new sputnik. Academician L. I. Sedov told “Pravda” there were also no animals in the 6;-ton satellite put into orbit on February 4.
“I would like to note that the rumours which have been spread abroad to the effect that there is a human being on this satellite do not accord with reality,” said Mr Sedov. The Royal Observatory at Edinburgh has received an ‘lndirect report” from Moscow that the new sputnik will enter the earth’s atmosphere and burn up “very shortly”— possibly today
Six members of the observatory staff saw the satellite briefly early yesterday, as it swung low through the northern sky.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29436, 11 February 1961, Page 13
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