Russia: Where's Ivan?

Gemini 11 's successful flight last week (see SCIENCE) underscored the space race's most tantalizing puzzle: What are the Russians doing? During the past 18 months, while the U.S. has conducted nine Gemini missions and captured virtually all important space records, the Soviet Union has not announced the launching of a single manned space flight.

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