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Overview
After successful launching in the multi-stage space rocket the satellite ship, having attained orbital velocity and separated from the last stage of the carrier-rocket, had begun free orbital flight round the earth.
According to preliminary data, orbital period of the spaceship is 89.1 minutes; it minimum distance form the earth's surface (perigee) is 175 kilometres and its maximum (apogee), 302 kilometres; the orbit is inclined to the equator at 65[degree]4'.
Together with its pilot, the spaceship weighs 4,725 kilograms excluding the weight of the last stage of the launching rocket.
Two-way radio communication has been established, and is being maintained, with the spaceman, Major Gagarin. The ship's short-wave transmitters are operating on 9.019 megacycles and 20.006 megacycles, and on 143.625 megacycles in the ultrashort-wave band. The condition of the space pilot during flight is being observed by means of radiotelemetering and television systems.
Major Gagarin, the space pilot, withstood the period of acceleration satisfactorily and at present feels quite well. The systems enduring the necessary life conditions in the cabin of the spaceship are functioning normally. The flight of the Vostok with Major Gagarin on board continues...
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780898754605 |
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| Publisher: | University Press of the Pacific |
| Publication date: | 07/01/2001 |
| Pages: | 112 |
| Sales rank: | 1,065,652 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.58(w) x 8.66(h) x 0.33(d) |
Table of Contents
| Great Event | 7 | |
| Highlights of the Hero's Life Story | 7 | |
| Man's First Space Flight. A TASS Report | 9 | |
| Man's Safe Return from His First Space Flight | 10 | |
| The Soviet Union Ushers In a New Era in Human Progress | 12 | |
| Message from the Central Committee of the C.P.S.U., the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R. and the Soviet Government to the Communist Party and the Peoples of the Soviet Union, to the Peoples and Governments of All Countries, to the Whole of Progressive Mankind | 12 | |
| Statement Made by Y. A. Gagarin Before the Take-Off | 15 | |
| Spaceport | 17 | |
| Report from the Landing Area of the Vostok | 20 | |
| To Major Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin, the Soviet Cosmonaut Who Was the First in the World to Accomplish a Space Flight | 23 | |
| "A Feat that Will Live Through the Ages." Conversation Between N. S. Khrushchov and Y. A. Gagarin, the First Space Pilot | 24 | |
| Space Pilot Speaking | 28 | |
| "This Feat Is an Embodiment of the Genius of the Soviet People and the Great Might of Socialism" | 35 | |
| Nation Hails the Hero | ||
| Pioneer of the Universe Greeted | 38 | |
| Meeting and Demonstration in Red Square | 41 | |
| Speech by Y. A. Gagarin | 42 | |
| The Great Feat Will Go Down in the Ages. Speech by N. S. Khrushchov | 45 | |
| Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R. Conferring the Title of Hero of the Soviet Union upon the Soviet Pilot-Cosmonaut Major Y. A. Gagarin, the World's First Space Flyer | 55 | |
| Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R. Instituting the Title of Pilot-Cosmonaut of the U.S.S.R. | 56 | |
| Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R. Conferring the Title of Pilot-Cosmonaut of the U.S.S.R. upon Major of the Air Force Y. A. Gagarin | 56 | |
| Triumph of Labour, Science and Reason. Press Conference at the House of Scientists | 57 | |
| Speech by A. N. Nesmeyanov | 57 | |
| Speech by Y. A. Gagarin | 61 | |
| Question Period | 66 | |
| Man's First Flight into Space | 71 | |
| Decisive Step in Mastering Space | 72 | |
| The Spaceship Vostok | 75 | |
| Medical and Biological Problems of Man's Flight into Space | 83 | |
| Training Space Pilots | 86 | |
| First Space Flight | 91 |