http://www.thespacebuff.com/current/remembering-cosmonaut-pavel-popovich/ On the human and robotic adventures beyond Earth. Fri, 21 Oct 2011 19:45:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.thespacebuff.com/current/remembering-cosmonaut-pavel-popovich/#comment-351 Ray Katz Fri, 04 Jun 2010 15:20:22 +0000 http://www.thespacebuff.com/?p=2606#comment-351 Thanks for the comment, Volker! Thanks for the comment, Volker!

]]> http://www.thespacebuff.com/current/remembering-cosmonaut-pavel-popovich/#comment-350 Volker Fri, 04 Jun 2010 15:14:56 +0000 http://www.thespacebuff.com/?p=2606#comment-350 Well, I remember the names of Nikolayev and Popovich - their flights happened at my fifth birthday. You are right, Americans were very worried at the time. But it was not so much the synchronized flight as it was the short time between the launches. The flights of Nikolayev and Popovich took place just eleven days after the peak of the Cuban missile crisis and the Russians had just proven that they were able to re-arm the launch pad of the world's biggest rocket within less than 24 hours. Well, I remember the names of Nikolayev and Popovich – their flights happened at my fifth birthday.
You are right, Americans were very worried at the time. But it was not so much the synchronized flight as it was the short time between the launches. The flights of Nikolayev and Popovich took place just eleven days after the peak of the Cuban missile crisis and the Russians had just proven that they were able to re-arm the launch pad of the world’s biggest rocket within less than 24 hours.

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