SHOT TO MOON
Attempt By Russia
(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) NEW DELHI, Oct. 30. The Soviet Union would soon launch a spacecraft on a flight round the moon with several cosmonauts aboard which might land outside Soviet territory, the Soviet Ambassador to India, Mr Nikolai M.
Pagov, said yesterday. “We hope it will land in India,” he told reporters in Madras,
Mr Pagov made the statement to Indian reporters at Madras Airport before he flew to New Delhi at the end of a two-day Madras State conference of the Indo-Soviet Cultural Society. The Soviet Union has asked a number of countries for permission to rescue cosmonauts who might land in them after returning from their flight round the moon, according to officials in Washington, the “New York Times” News Service reported.
The countries are In the tropical zones, in areas where such a Soviet space craft might land if it looped round the moon and returned to earth.
The United States, the sources said, was not among the countries asked. Officials said the flights of Cosmos 186 and 187 on Friday and Saturday, were apparently unmanned practice shots for the manned flight.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31514, 31 October 1967, Page 17
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191SHOT TO MOON Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31514, 31 October 1967, Page 17
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