FLIGHTS TO PLANETS
Soviet Plans Outlined (N.Z.P A.-Reuter— Copyright) NEW DELHI, November 12. Soviet scientists are developing a spaceshhip capable of carrying spacemen and quantities of food to Mars and Venus in the near future, the Soviet cosmonaut, Major Andrei Nikolaev said yesterday. Major Nikolaev, who arrived in New Delhi yesterday with his bride, Valentina Tereshkova, and a third fellow - cosmonaut, Colonel Valery Bykovsky, on a twoweek tour of India and Nepal, was speaking at a reception given in their honour by scientific organisations. He said the flight to Mars and Venus would last up to three years. It would take up to seven months to reach the planets and seven months for the return journey. The cosmonauts would have to stay for one year on toe planets to study them, he said.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30287, 13 November 1963, Page 34
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