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COLD WAR 28/24
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Transcript of interview with cosmonaut Major Gherman Titov, 1996
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- 1996 Mar (Creation)
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10pp
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Typescript transcript of interview with Maj Gherman Stepanovich Titov, the second Soviet Cosmonaut, relating to the Soviet selection and training of the first Cosmonauts, 1960-1961; the character of Yuriy Alekseevich Gagarin, the first Soviet Cosmonaut, 1960-1961; Gagarin's space flight, Apr 1961; launch of Soviet spacecraft Vostok II, with Titov on board, 6 Aug 1961; the US/Soviet space race, 1957-1969; the US Apollo 11 mission to the Moon, Jul 1969; the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, Ukraine, USSR, 25-26 -Apr 1986. 10pp
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