THE SECOND MAN IN SPACE ADDRESSES THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AT THE HEIGHT OF THE COLD TITOV, GHERMAN. Titov's broadcast speech. Typescript of a television speech given by Cosmonaut Titov in New York in May of 1962. With Titov's holograph endations and corrections. The edits include deletions of entire paragraphs and the addtion of a new closing to the no doubt prepared speech. 14 pages, tall 4to. May, 1962.
On this journey to the U.S., Titov and astronaut John Glenn became the first rival spacemen to meet, at the May 1962 COSPAR gathering in Washington. After the two men along with their wives toured the capital and called on President Kennedy at the White House, the fellow travelers held a news conference. Titov was circumspect in answering questions about his Vostok craft and would discuss space cooperation only in the context of disarmament.
In his hand Titov departs from the provided text and comments on the humbling aspects of flight, "When I was aboard Vostok II, I realized how small the world actually is and that it is too small for another war."
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