Monument to spacemen
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GENEVA, July 21
Mrs Ekaterina Furtseva, the Soviet Union Minister of Culture, confirmed today that discussions were advancing for a docking in space between Russian and American spacecraft.
In Geneva with the cosmonaut,. Adrian Nikolayev, to inaugurate a monument to Russian space achievements, Mrs Furtseva told a news conference that several technical problems had to be resolved before such a linking could take place. Built on a platform of dark grey Soviet Union marble on the lawn of the Palace of Nations, the 60ft-high monument bears the inscription: “In Dedication to Man’s Success in Space.”
On the monument is the face of Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32665, 22 July 1971, Page 15
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