Word: apollo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spacemen will also dine together. The Apollo crewmen will treat Leonov to a meal of potato soup, beefsteak, rye bread and cheese, strawberries and tea with lemon. Most of the American food is dehydrated and requires the addition of water; the Russians prefer space food that is already in paste form. Brand will get a chance to test ins skills on a Soviet chest-exercising device. On Friday, Stafford and Leonov are scheduled to hold a joint press conference, fielding reporters' questions from Houston and Moscow...
Traveling in a slightly lower orbit and at a higher speed, Soyuz will gradually pull away from Apollo. Some 38 hours later, it will fire its braking rocket and enter an arcing course back to earth. At 6:51 a.m. E.D.T. next Monday, Soyuz is scheduled to land under its single giant parachute east of the Kazakhstan launch site. The Americans will remain in orbit another three days before their Pacific splashdown on July 24, performing a variety of different chores-some aimed at understanding more about the earth...
...mission involved no major technological breakthrough. In a sense, both Apollo and its 20-story Saturn IB booster are antiques, having been built some nine years ago for the moon program. Still, unexpected gremlins can turn up in even the most time-tested equipment and procedures, witness the repeated difficulties encountered by the three Skylab missions...
...Soviets have amply demonstrated their determination to make the mission a success. In the past two years, they have thoroughly tested three Soyuz spacecraft and extensively overhauled the design following the 1971 hatch failure that killed three cosmonauts. Moreover, while the Americans had only one Apollo ready to launch, the Soviets prepared two Soyuz sinps in case one developed a last-minute problem that could jeopardize the flight...
...responsible for the failure of a mission so long in the making. The Kennedy-Khrushchev overtures notwithstanding, the Russians showed a serious interest in a joint space act for the first time after the Americans proved their clear superiority in space by landing on the moon in 1969. Apollo 13's failure a year later added a new inducement to a joint mission: the obvious need for orbital rescue capability. President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin formally agreed on a joint space mission at the 1972 Moscow Summit...