Aug 3 1963

From The Space Library

Patent to Boeing Co. engineers Joseph H. Doss and Gary A. Graham for method of suspending astronaut in his spacecraft with netting and cables was reported in New York Times. In­ventors claimed system would give astronaut more mobility than couches used in Mercury spacecraft. (Jones, NYT, 8/3/63, 21) )

Photographs of members of Leningrad Cosmonaut Club featured in Soviet press. School children members of clubs said to have flown in jet aircraft, trained in pressure and isolation chambers, and executed parachute jumps; they have studied radio opera­tion and were familiar with astronomy, space medicine, and "cosmonautics." (Komsomolskaya Pravda, 8/3/63,4, AFSS-T Trans.)

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