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Both sides are eagerly preparing for that pioneering venture. Taking a break from the joint training exercises at Star City, the Soviet cosmonaut center outside Moscow, Apollo Commander Thomas Stafford last week said: "I am fully confident of success." His Soviet counterpart, Alexei Leonov, more than echoed his optimism: "Everything is going efficiently and on schedule...
...time, U.S. officials had their doubts (and some still do), mainly because of the problem-plagued Soyuz, which one expert bluntly described as "primitive as hell." Cramped and crudely engineered, in the opinion of the Americans, it carries too little fuel for its thruster rockets; by contrast, the Apollo's computer-controlled thrusters have an excess of power. A more serious U.S. objection is that the Soyuz is controlled almost entirely from the ground; the cosmonauts have limited means of coping with emergencies on their...
...Berry, the Apollo moon landings and the Skylab missions are only the first small steps. He predicts that by the next century, attempts will be made to establish lunar bases-perhaps as astronomical observatories unhampered by the earth's obscuring atmosphere. Mining and other industrial activities will soon follow. Eventually there may be "low-gravity" lunar hospitals, where ailing limbs and organs would be under less strain than on the earth...
...three exhibition games to watch a bulldozer clear palmetto scrub for a supermarket parking lot? This was equivalent to the thrill of watching the Miami Dolphins sweep to their last two championships. All their games were sold out--who could watch it? It was the space program serving up Apollo 19 for a re-re-run. I hate to say it, but give me the days when Flipper was flipping out of a bucket at the end of the Orange Bowl for every one of Miami's infrequent touchdowns and before Csonka had his NASA-engineered suspension helmet...
...your article on the sale of the passenger ship France [April 8], you mention that "the French attach great importance to symbols of national prestige," as though this were a rather unique national trait. Let's see now-just how much did the Apollo program cost...