Jan 21 1967
From The Space Library
Luna XII, first Soviet satellite to successfully transmit photos to earth from lunar orbit, had completed its mission and broken radio contact with ground stations, Tass announced. Satellite had been launched Oct. 22,1966. (W Post, 1/22/67, A23; UPI, NYT, 1/23/67,7)
"Serious difficulties" had developed in Soviet program to land a man on the moon and it would take "no little time" to solve them, Cosmonaut Gherman Titov said in Aviatsiya i Kosmonavtika. (UPI, NYT, 1/23/67, 21)
Report that Communist China would launch a "space vessel" in 1967 appeared in Red Flag, newspaper of the Red Guard of the Peking Aeronautical Institute. U.S. experts had been crediting Communist China with capability to launch a satellite since her successful guided missile nuclear weapon test Oct. 27,1966. (NYT, 1/22/67, A4)
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