A FEW MORE CAME BEFORE HIM
Your obituary for former Soviet cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev contains an error in claiming that Nikolayev was the third man to fly in space (AW&ST July 12, p. 18). He was the third Soviet cosmonaut to travel into space, orbiting in Vostok 3 in 1962, after the flights of Yuri Gagarin and Gherman Titov...
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