vain, with difficulty they managed to persuade academician kildish not to cancel the flight, and valery bykovskyscovered. 5 minutes before launch the hydraulic horizon of the third stage failed. in order not to cancel the launch, it was decided to replace the device directly with a fueled rocket with an astronaut already sitting in the cabin. so, june 14, 1963 into space. valery bykovsky set off, on the eve of the flight valentina and her backup were, according to tradition, to be introduced to the starting squad; the girls arrived in military uniform: shirts with shoulder straps, ties, skirts, berets, ladies' army shoes. and at first they all arrived in military uniform, the joint venture saw, he said, what’s this, they decided there at the academy, which means military men, they also change into military uniform for all of them, then they change clothes. came out pretty, pretty girls like that, although there were some nerves here, the hairdresser brought to the cosmodrome dyed panomareva’s hair golden and terezhkova’s hair dark, but immediately after that it turned out that in the official ph

i haven’t, moreover, even you won’t believe it, but it’s a fact, i was named after cosmonaut valery bykovsky was named after yuri alekseevich gagarin, that ’s why two people named after soviet cosmonauts will bring sadness to vostochny cosmodrome, i think that this is very symbolic and very good, this is still graphics, a project 5 years ago, a launch complex for the angara, and this is already a reality, the launch pad, which was delivered from severo dvinsk, the rocket’s space journey will begin from here, the launch is the most durable structure at the cosmodrome, all the power of the flames of the first stage engines, which lift the rocket off the ground, will fall here. you see how many people are involved in this project, from the idea, the thought, from the pencil to the manufacturing, installation, delivery, when the system begins to come to life here. directly at the cosmodrome during setup, during testing, of course, you understand how much work has been put in and how many work teams from all over the country, from dozens of cities in our country. the launch pad for ankara, like t

after the flight of valentina terezhkova and valery bykovsky, the designers did not have a voskhod shipr flights unrelated to it in their plans. but the program included a dog flight to an altitude of 600 km, a single cosmonaut flight for 8 days, and a group flight of two spacecraft lasting up to 10 days. politics intervened again. the space race between the two superpowers was gaining momentum. the americans, taking advantage of their multiple economic and technological superiority , stepped on their heels. february 20, 1962 at the first american astronaut, john glenn, went into space. in october, fellow astronaut walter shear spent more than 9 hours in orbit. and gordon cooper, who launched in 1963 , made 22 orbits around the earth. here now, the assembly of four planned vostok ships is being slowed down due to departmental confusion, bureaucracy, they are already obsolete, by the time they are assembled they will only be suitable for a museum, bad, bad, we need bright events for the joy of the people . how can we wipe our noses again? the americans with these ships are unlikely nikit