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At the back of the dictionary I found a number of contemporary newspaper cuttings that the previous owner had obviously collected and placed at the back of the book for safe keeping . Some now make interesting reading and this short web page presents these cuttings. For some reason,this person did not cut out the ‘full article’ so some are only partial stories but you can make out the thread of each one easily. READ AND ENJOY ! NOTE: You will have to click on images and view outside the web page to read the text |
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16th May 1960 These cuttings relay the story of the Soviet Union’s unmanned Vostok test flight. Remember this just under one year before Yuri Gagarin’s first manned orbital flight in April 1961. Note the artist’s depiction of the Vostok capsule | ||
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28th October 1959 This news story was published just after Russia’s Lunik-3 unmanned space probe photographed the Moon’s far-side for the very first time. It compares America’s space programme against Russia’s space programme. Note at this stage in the ‘space race’ it was "neck-and-neck" . | ||||
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7th March 1960 This is an interesting story since this was published BEFORE President John F.Kennedy announced Project Apollo would fly to the Moon in May 1961 |
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12th March 1960 Interesting story about the American Pioneer V space probe in that England’s Jodrell Bank radio telescope was used to send the signal to Pioneer V that would seperate it from its carrier rocket. Jodrell Bank had earlier been used by the Russian’s to track Sputnik-1 and some later Lunik ( Luna ) flights. Some years later ,the same observatory scooped the world when it received and published the very first images snapped from the Moon’s surface by Russia’s Luna-9 robot lunar lander.The observatory loaned a fax receiver from the Daily Express to enable those first pictures to be published to scoop the world ! | ||
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8th July 1961 Just weeks after his historic first man in space flight on 12th April 1961, Yuri Gagarin came to Britain. I will let you make your own judgments on the content of this news cutting story. | |
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3rd February 1964 A news story about the American Ranger unmanned lunar exploration probes published just after Ranger VI had failed its mission. The next probe Ranger VII ,however, was highly succesful and gave added impetus to the American Apollo programme. | |
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11th May 1962 Interesting story about America’s planned NOVA rocket programme. This was to become known as the Saturn V rocket in later years. The news cutting is labelled N.E.P. - which I have taken to be the Northern Evening Post. Any UK readers suggest which newspaper it might actually be? | |
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5th May 1961 An artist’s drawing of Alan Shepard’s sub-orbital flight in May 1961 | |
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