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Topic: Astronaut, cosmonaut visits to USSR, US
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Explorer1
Member Posts: 237
From: Los Angeles, CA, USA
Registered: Apr 2019
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posted 11-26-2019 03:48 AM
  
Who was the first American astronaut to visit the Soviet Union? Was it Frank Borman in 1969? I believe Tom Stafford was the next. Yuri Gagarin, Gherman Titov and Valentina Tereshkova all did world tours after their spaceflights. Titov visited the U.S. in 1962 but I don't believe Gagarin or Tereshkova ever visited the U.S. Does anyone know why? |
Ken Havekotte
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From: Merritt Island, Florida, Brevard
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 11-26-2019 06:16 AM
Frank Borman, along with his wife Susan, was the first astronaut to visit Russia in July 1969. Neil Armstrong also visited Russia twice in May and June of 1970.The first astronaut and cosmonaut to meet together were John Glenn and Gherman Titov in May 1962, Washington, D.C. In June 1965, Jim McDivitt and Ed White met up with Yuri Gagarin at the Paris Air Show and during that same year in September, Gordon Cooper and Pete Conrad met Alexei Leonov and Pavel Belyayev in Athens. There are other encounters if you want to have them posted... |
Philip
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From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 11-26-2019 08:46 AM
It's also interesting to check the visits of Russian cosmonauts to Switzerland as this triggered the use of Omega watches aboard Russian spaceflight missions (e.g Soyuz 15). Some early visits included: - 1971: Vitali Sevastiynov
- 1973: Alexei Yeliseyev
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LM-12
Member Posts: 3504
From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 11-26-2019 08:49 AM
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Originally posted by Explorer1:
I don't believe Gagarin or Tereshkova ever visited the U.S.
Looks like Valentina Tereshkova was in Houston in May 1977. |
Skylon
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posted 11-26-2019 10:40 AM
Any idea about the nature of this visit by Soviet cosmonauts to Houston in 1970 was? I forgot who the cosmonauts in the image are, but I was always impressed how warmly it seemed the reception was for the cosmonauts that they got invited to a backyard barbecue by their American counterparts. |
Explorer1
Member Posts: 237
From: Los Angeles, CA, USA
Registered: Apr 2019
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posted 11-27-2019 01:37 AM
Yes please post any other visits by cosmonauts and conversely any visits by astronauts to the Soviet Union.Gagarin visited many countries but I don't believe he ever visited the U.S. Is this true? |
Robert Pearlman
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From: Houston, TX
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posted 11-27-2019 09:09 AM
Yuri Gagarin did not visit the United States. There are citations (including on Wikipedia) that state that due to Gagarin's popularity at the time of his flight, that President Kennedy blocked any visit to the United States, but the sourcing for that is not clear. |
Explorer1
Member Posts: 237
From: Los Angeles, CA, USA
Registered: Apr 2019
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posted 11-28-2019 06:57 AM
I wonder how these diplomatic visits by Soviet cosmonauts were arranged. Was it the Soviet Union reaching out to various countries to offer a visit or was it these countries asking for cosmonauts to visit? For example, why did England host Gagarin if England was a U.S. ally?Also, if Kennedy didn't want Gagarin to visit the U.S., then why was Titov's visit permissible? Is there a link to the citation that says the Kennedy didn't want Gagarin to visit? |
Robert Pearlman
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From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 11-28-2019 07:21 AM
Wikipedia sources it to an April 2011 column in The Telegraph, but the source for that citation is not known. It is difficult, today, for us to understand the level of Gagarin's instant celebrity. When he visited Britain, he was driven through cheering crowds in an open-topped Rolls Royce, with the numberplate YG-1, to take tea with the Queen at Buckingham Palace (Elena recalls that she "gave him some rather beautiful dolls to bring back for me and Galina"). The Russophobe Daily Mail even ran the headline: "Make him Sir Yuri!", while John F Kennedy was so alarmed by his popularity that he banned him from entering the United States. |
LM-12
Member Posts: 3504
From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 11-28-2019 11:54 AM
Cosmonauts Georgi Beregovoi and Konstantin Feoktistov visited the United States in October 1969.50 Years Ago: Cosmonauts Visit United States |
Mike Isbell
Member Posts: 559
From: Silver Spring, Maryland USA
Registered: Aug 2003
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posted 12-08-2019 08:47 PM
The cosmonauts in the 1970 photo are the Soyuz 9 crew of Andriyan Nikolayev and Vitali Sevastiyanov. |
KC Stoever
Member Posts: 1012
From: Denver, CO USA
Registered: Oct 2002
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posted 12-10-2019 08:53 AM
I googled "Scott Carpenter" + "trampoline" + "USSR" to confirm my memory that Carpenter visited the Soviet Union in 1972. It was a goodwill tour with US gymnasts and maybe even George Nissen, or Nissen Trampolines. Carpenter and Nissen first met at NAS Ottumwa (Iowa), while Carpenter and his fellow cadets were attending WWII Primary Flight training in the latter half of 1945. Nissen, and Iowa native, was teaching pilots how to orient themselves in the air, using one of his inventions: the trampoline. |
rmiller
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From: South Boston, VA, USA
Registered: May 2008
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posted 12-17-2019 09:56 AM
This is a photo of a gathering of astronauts and cosmonauts at Star City in 1987, as part of the celebration of the 30th anniversary of Sputnik. Can anyone help identifying all who were there? |
Philip
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From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 12-17-2019 10:22 AM
Easily done, InterCosmos crews from many countries...Front row between Valentina Tereshkova and Alexei Leonov are Kathryn Sullivan (? Shannon Lucid), John Fabian. Other Americans include Owen Garriott, James Van Hoften, Ron Grabe (second left top row could be Marc Garneau?), Richard Gordon, Stu Roosa and Charlie Walker. |
Neil DC
Member Posts: 159
From: Middletown, NJ, USA
Registered: May 2010
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posted 12-17-2019 11:41 AM
Front: Strekalov, Malyshev, Volynov, Tereshkova, Ride, Fabian, Leonov, Shatalov, Klimuk, Ivanov, Beregovoy, Filipchenko, GlazkovMiddle: Garriott, Van Hoften, Gordon, Neri, Shonin, Remek, Roosa, Gurragcha, Farkas, Rozhdestvensky, Viktorenko, Tuan, Prunariu Back: Serebrov, Garneau, V. Titov, Chretien, Ivanchenkov, C. Walker, Makarov, Berezovoy, Aksyonov, Bykovsky, Hermaszewski, Rukavishnikov, Tamayo-Mendez Signed by, but not in the photo: G. Titov, Volk, Yegorov, Vasyutin. Not everyone in the photo signed it. |
Philip
Member Posts: 6069
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 12-17-2019 11:48 AM
Fifth left in front row is Kathryn Sullivan. |
Neil DC
Member Posts: 159
From: Middletown, NJ, USA
Registered: May 2010
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posted 12-17-2019 12:08 PM
I beg to differ on this. Shannon Lucid is much taller. Thought for a moment Sullivan. But sandwiched between Tereshkova and STS-7 crew mate John Fabian. |
Philip
Member Posts: 6069
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 12-18-2019 04:57 AM
Not Sally Ride, can we find out using the signatures? |
Neil DC
Member Posts: 159
From: Middletown, NJ, USA
Registered: May 2010
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posted 12-18-2019 08:06 AM
I looked at the autographs on the photo. Neither signed it. I even looked at the ASE poster they produced at the time. Neither signed it. Sullivan too is pretty tall. Taller than Tereshkova or Leonov. I am convinced it is Ride. |
brianjbradley
Member Posts: 118
From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Registered: Dec 2010
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posted 12-18-2019 09:25 AM
Sally Ride left NASA in May 1987. This was taken in October. The astronaut in question between Valentina Tereshkova and John Fabian is Kathryn Sullivan. |
rmiller
Member Posts: 29
From: South Boston, VA, USA
Registered: May 2008
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posted 12-19-2019 07:40 AM
Thanks everyone! This information is very greatly appreciated! |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 44927
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 07-16-2020 01:11 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Robert Pearlman:
Yuri Gagarin did not visit the United States.
I was mistaken. This citation shows that Gagarin was in New York City in 1963. In this photograph from 1963, Secretary-General U Thant (2nd right) and the President of the General Assembly, Carlos Sosa-Rodriguez (left) receive cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova (2nd left) – the first woman in space – and Gagarin (right) at the UN Headquarters, in New York.  |
LM-12
Member Posts: 3504
From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 10-24-2020 09:20 AM
quote:
Originally posted by Mike Isbell:
The cosmonauts in the 1970 photo are the Soyuz 9 crew of Andriyan Nikolayev and Vitali Sevastiyanov.
Here is a different backyard image[/URL] of those astronauts and cosmonauts. At Jim McDivitt's house, I think. |
LM-12
Member Posts: 3504
From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 10-25-2020 06:02 PM
Who is the man wearing glasses? I don't see him in the first photo. |
LM-12
Member Posts: 3504
From: Ontario, Canada
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posted 10-30-2020 04:56 PM
It looks like that same man can be seen in this photo standing between the cosmonauts. Perhaps he is an interpreter.I don't see a name tag on the suit seen on the table, but I think I see a "Schmitt" name tag at bottom center on what might be some lunar boots. |
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