VOSKHOD GOES INTO ORBIT
While Johnson and Goldwater argued in the United States over which had the best formula for "containing" and eventually "defeating" the new social order that began displacing capitalism in 1917, the Soviet Union scored a new triumph, "“Voskhod" -- "Dawn" -- the first three-man spaceship, was sent into orbit October le.
The reaction in Washington was quite typical. An unnamed spokesman said that the State Department was watching “with interest" and that-a safe return was wished the three-man crew. Space chief James E. Webb stated for the record that it was a "significant space accomplishment."' It remained for the unofficial commentators in the capital of the world's mightiest military power to confess that Soviet
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technology had scored another startling advance. An unidentified "high official" of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Agency said that it would take five years before the United States could send three men aloft. This was the "space-gap" admitted by Eisenhower when the first Sputnik was sent into orbit October 4, 1957,
The team of Russian cosmonauts included Col. Vladimir Komarov, 357, the technician. in command; Konstantin P. Feoktistov, 58, a scientist; and Dr. Boris B. Yegorov, 27, a doctor who has specialized in aviation and space medicine.
As they orbited the earth in cycles of 90.1 minutes, they broadcast messages to the peoples below. The first one went to the Africans. “We salute the peoples of Africa who are fighting for | their liberty and independence." 7
The message was an appropriate one, for the new countries. now dotting the continent over which Voskhod was spinning have all. derived enormous inspiration from the October. 1917 Revolution and from the unprecedented swiftness of the Soviet Union's rise as a major world power,
Over South America, the space team sent the following mes sage to those below: ‘We salute the peoples of Latin America in their desire for peace and happiness. Warm greetings.-to the heroic people of Cuba," -
Crossing the sister workers state of the People's Republic of China, they said: "We send our best wishes to the millions who constitute the Chinese people,"
The international community of scientists stressed the technical hurdles that had to be surmounted. The size of the spaceship... the extra power...the feat of landing three men simultaneously...
Soviet scientist Leonid Sedov summed up this side of the achievement: "This success opens new perspectives in the conquest of the cosmos. The time is nearing when man will touch the moon, Venus, Mars." OS Ot
However, that will not be the main inspiration drawn by most people. They are still bound to the surface of our planet. They ‘must continue on a job that is often less than inspiring. Many must walk the pavements in search of jobs. Others in the swamps, the | jungles and the mountains, must crawl on their bellies gun in hand to win the most.elementary rights. To these people, who constitute the overwhelming majority, Voskhod orbiting overhead will be one more proof of the superiority of planned economy over the anarchy of capitalism; one more proof of how correct the Russian workers were in 1917 when they followed Lenin and Trotsky and established the first Workers and Peasants Government.
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