satellite of the Sun.
system.
rtificia2.
Thus there apeared the first
The weight of the last stage (without f-el) was
lDIzrt in tbs sol.-
,72 3_ugrams .
On 12 Seute.ba-r 1959 there was Zaunched a second Sovriet smce rocket to the Mow,
u nich reached it
surface the Soviet message
in 1.5 days, delivering to its
with the state emblem cf the Soviet Union. weight without fue! us
1he __t
1553 kg, and the _S
eoac
stage of the rocket, 1
iet State nessags -were t e fi-rst -t ,in histcry of h=_.tv
cles =ade by the hands of r-ar delivered to another p lne,
On 4 October 1959, the second anmi-ersary since lachirg of first ar*Sioial Soviet earth satellite, the third Soviet space rocket was lai,'cbedLn
diecti-, cf te'-
interp _etary station., u-ch Wiln he Its last stage carried an autatic a special system of orientation and speci-l arrangement 0f P. otog!--P_c (being c-ntro1_ed by radio) for the first -
anot urnduced -z.
MSID Of
V..,
ns of tne re-erse
side of Moon, invisible from E-rth, and then transitied the ibtained imag-s Lo Earth bY radio. equi.zent,
The automatic space station 'ms a ca
l icated an& .perfect piece of
tich alloiad our scientists, engineers, and w
truly unprecedented scientific feat.
Each launchi-ng of ar--ficcial earth sate"Im s
and space rockets constituted a new fther, ditionirg of humanity to Space:
"it
rkers to execute this
higher stage of the Legining of con-
is obvious that the investigaticns performed
are only the beginning.
Ahead are remarkable prospects of further space flights,
stated Academician L. I.
Sedov, Chairman of internat-onal Federation of Astronauts
-
[Astronautics] on November 1959. When after conservative and clear descriptions in reports of TASS of details of the structure of the automatic interplanetary station of third space rocket, one reads science-fiction products of Tsiolkovskiy, one involuntarily stops or. already familiar names.
For instance, one meets the term "gyroscopic transducer" in the
monograph "Free Space," describing the first design of a spaceship in 1883 (see figure in appendix.).
Solar batteries, named solar motors, are described in "Dreams
about Earth and Sky" (1895).
Adjustment of internal temperature by means of louver
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