Office of the Historian

110. Message From Chairman Khrushchev to President Kennedy0

Moscow, July 8, 1963.

Dear Mr. President: I thank you for the felicitations in connection with the successful protracted flight of Cosmonaut Valeri Bykovski and the first of its kind in the world for a woman—Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova.1

The Soviet people are proud of the successes of their cosmonauts, breaking the trail into unknown expanses of the universe, and consider that cosmic space should be a zone of peace, a field for cooperation among nations.

N. Khrushchev
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  1. Source: Department of State, Presidential Correspondence: Lot 66 D 204. No classification marking. The source text is a Department of State translation of a telegram from Moscow. The Russian-language text and another copy of this message are in the Kennedy Library, National Security Files, Countries Series, USSR, Khrushchev Correspondence.↩
  2. See Document 107.↩
  3. Printed from a copy that bears this typed signature.↩