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University Daily Kansan
Monday, Oct. 12, 1964
Red Space Ship Aloft—
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THE SOVIET ACHIEVEMENT however, may perhaps lead scientists to build a bigger fire under the space agency—a move that could result in a somewhat earlier selection of scientifically-trained personnel for space flights.
A few of this nation's 29 astronauts have had extensive scientific training. R. Walter Cunningham, for one, was a research scientist for the Rand Corp., of Santa Monica, Calif., prior to exchanging his lab apron for a silvery space suit early this year.
Basically, however, America's pool of space pilots is a conglomerate of former aircraft jet pilots. NASA has demonstrated notable reluctance to change that policy.
ALL OF WHICH MEANS that, for the first time since 1960, there will be no American names in this year's roll call of space.
According to reliable sources, engineer-Colonel Komarov is a Russian and has been a member of the Communist Party for the past two years. He has a wife, Valentina Yakovlevna, and two children: a son, Yevgeny, 13, and a daughter, Ira 6.
Nevertheless, there are plenty of U.S. astronauts. The problem is, they don't have transportation.
Dr. Boris Yegorov is the youngest crew member at 27. He is a medical college graduate. His wife, Eleonora Valentinova, works in Moscow television. They have a two-year-old son named Boris.
oen: a son, Tevgeny, 18, and Arundin The scientist, Konstantin Feoktistov, 38, is a graduate of the Bauman Institute, a high technical college, and has two sons Nikolay, 11, and Andrei, 2. He is not a Communist, according to Tass.
A FRIEND OF PILOT Komarov, journalist Yevgeny Ryabchikov, described the commander as "an unusual person . . . a jack of all trades. He can do everything with his hands."
Official Bulletin
GRADUATE PHYSICS COLLQQUI-
um, 4:30 p.m., 155 Malott. "A Plasma
Shock Theory of Comet Tails." — Prof.
David Reard.
TODAY
CATHOLIC MASS, 5 p.m. St. Lawrence Chapel, 1910 Stratford Rd.
FACULTY RECITAL. 8 p.m. Swar-
thout, Reinhold Schmidt, bass-barrione.
EPCISOPAL EVENING PRAYER. 9:30
p.m. Danforth.
TOMORROW
CATHOLIC MASSES, 6:45 a.m., 5 p.m.
St. Lawrence Chapel, 1910 Stratford rd.
SPEECH AND DRAMA RESEARCH
COLIQUOUM, 3:30-5 p.m., 301 Summerfield.
"Communication as Perception"
—Dr. Jack Douglas, U. of Okla-
home
GRADEATE PHYSICS COLLQOIUM, 4 p. 30 m., 155 Malott. "Two-Body Force Inside Nuclei from Reactions" Ian McCarthy, U. of Calif. at Davis.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE COLLEGE ORGANIZATION, 7:30 p.m., Danfort Chapel. INQUIRERS CLASS, 7:30 p.m., Cantonville, Howse, 1136, JA.
STUDENT PEACE UNION, 7:30 p.m.
Kansas Union.
Kansas HELLENIC ASSOCIATION, 8 p.m.
Foster Theater
Komarov's birthday is March 16. He is said to be the most popular of all the Soviet cosmonauts.
UNIVERSITY LECTURE. 8 p.m., Jayhawk Room, Kansas Union. "Contem-
pary Philosophic Revisions of Marxism."—George L. Kline, Bryn Mawr.
EPISCOPAL HOLY COMMUNION,
9:30 p.m. Danford Chapel.
He is an excellent parachute jumper and winner of the Order of the Red Star and other medals. In addition to his guitar and singing, he likes to draw comic sketches of his fellow cosmonauts.
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Radio Moscow said two-way radio communication is being maintained with Voskhod.
AFTER THE SPACE craft completed its first orbit of the earth, Dr. Yegorov performed a general medical examination, Radio Moscow said, and then the three had lunch.
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