European-Russian cooperation in spaceflight began on a hot summer’s day, 20 June 1966, when a sleek French air force Caravelle passenger jet touched down at the newly built glass-and-steel terminal at Vnukovo airport, Moscow. The Caravelle was escorted in by a flight of MiG jets which quickly departed for their home airfields. Down the steps came the unmistakable, tall figure of the President of France, General Charles de Gaulle, accompanied by Madame Yvonne de Gaulle and their son Philippe, along with foreign minister Maurice Couve de Murville. They had scarcely been greeted by President Nikolai Podgorny, prime minister Alexei Kosygin and a guard of honour when a gun salute crashed out and a Russian military band struck up the Marseillaise. The visitors drove into the city in an open top black car, with the flags of each country on its wings. The glorious sunny weather was to last almost all of the next week. First there was a visit to the Bolshoi theatre and then Moscow Lomonosov state university, before the visitors travelled on 23 June to the capital of Siberia, Novosibirsk, Akademgorodok (the town for scientists) with its rows of apartments and riverside birch trees.
Early days
Springer Praxis Books(formerly: Springer-Praxis Series)
2021-04-11
40 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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