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... /2/63, 1, 9)'' U.S. reaction to U.S.S.R.'s launching of POLET I and Premier Khrushchev's subsequent expression of interest in U.S.-U.S.S ... to pursue our broad-based program as assurance against surprise." U.S. space experts likened POLET I to the U.S. Gemini space­craft, scheduled to make its first unmanned flight ... century . . . ." ''(Text; Airpower Historian 1/64, 6-10)'' U.S.S.R. announced launching of POLET I (Flight I), a new type of maneuverable spacecraft for use in manned orbital rendezvous ...

... day when Yuri Gagarin made the first space flight in 1961. USSR announced steerable spacecraft POLET II had been placed in orbit. Purposes of the launching were said to be to ... work out questions concerning the problem of space rendezvous." After being placed in initial orbit, POLET was maneuvered in various directions by means of special engine system. "As a result of ... substantially changed the angle of inclination of its orbital plane." After the programmed space maneuvers, POLET II was in the following orbit: apogee, 500 km. (311 mi.); perigee, 310 km. (193 ...

... . ought to follow. ''(NYT, 11/3/63, 9E)'' U.S.S.R.'s maneuverable spacecraft POLET I , launched Nov. 1, 1963, was put through its maneuvers by radio commands from the ... on U.S.S.R.'s latest space feat, the launching of the maneuverable spacecraft POLET I : "Russia's newest venture in space has come at exactly the right time. Although ...

... the Soviet Academy of Sciences, was interviewed by Soviet newsmen on the signifi­cance of POLET I , the maneuverable spacecraft orbited by U.S.S.R. be on November 1, 1963 ... /63, 42; Wash. Daily News, 11/11/63)'' U.S. tracking data on the Russian POLET I maneuverable spacecraft substantiated the Russian claim of change in apogee but indicated that any ...

... launched from the West Coast base. ''(AP, Wash. Sun. Star. 11/3/63)'' Soviet reported POLET I had gone into fixed elliptical earth orbit after flying through several orbits and orbital ...

... . Mathews ). ''(MSC Release)'' Various Russian sources had listed a variety of possible uses for the Polet type of maneuverable satellite, according to Space Business Daily. Space expert Vladimir Dobronravov had said ...

... can safely be sent back, then it is quite feasible, quite possible." He said that POLET I had made space rendezvous possible but that "no definite date" had been set for ...

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