Manned Flight?
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) MOSCOW, April 21. An unmanned Soviet satellite circled the earth today in an orbit that may herald the Soviet Union's resumption of manned space flights after a lapse of a year. Cosmos 216 was launched yesterday into a flight trajectory close to the one used by the last cosmonaut, Vladimir Komarov, who was killed on April 24 last year in the crash of Soyuz-1. Scientific observers have been expecting a resumption of manned flights since the first automatic link on October 30, 1967. This was believed to have been an unmanned duplication of the task Komarov was to have performed before something went wrong with Soyuz-1. Expectations grew after the second automatic link last Monday, which Soviet scientists and cosmonauts said proved that the docking procedure had finally been mastered.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31660, 22 April 1968, Page 11
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