Word: apollos
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Critics of the mission who have complained that the Soyuz spacecraft is too "primitive" to bother docking with should realize that if it weren't for the launching of that spacecraft, we would not be launching an Apollo for any reason. The Soyuz program, however primitive it may be, is still advancing steadily. By contrast, Apollo and Skylab are dead. When viewed in this light, it is actually the Soviets who are condescending to dock with us. Soyuz is just coming into its own, while Apollo is putting on its encore performance...
...play in the times of ancient Greece, yet its tone is clearly Christian, including even a reference to Whitsunday. Hermione claims her father was Emperor of Russia, when there was then no such thing. A famous 16th-century Italian sculptor is cited by name. Shakespeare confused the oracle of Apollo at Delphi with the one on the island of Deios, and provided Bohemia with a seacoast it has never enjoyed. On top of that, the dramatist dared to jump 16 years between the third and fourth acts...
...that the U.S.-Soviet flight had "shown a sometimes skeptical world that perhaps there is a real chance for world unity." That theme is sure to be heard repeatedly later in August when the two Soyuz cosmonauts arrive in the U.S. for a tour. But no reruns of the Apollo-Soyuz space spectacular are possible until the 1980s, when American astronauts again take to orbit aboard the space shuttle, a new generation of reusable craft that launch from a pad and land on a runway...
...warm afterglow of the first joint American-Soviet mission, NASA officials are already talking about inviting the Russians to take part in the shuttle program, possibly by using it to visit a future Soviet space station. But as last week's precarious Apollo landing served to re-emphasize, such facile space politics carries human as well as diplomatic risks in exposing men and their fragile machines to the still formidable hazards of unforgiving space...
...pair of New Yorkers, for example, are toying with the notion of an off-season $998-per-person package holiday in Russia, which 5,057 Americans visited in the first four months of this year-an increase of 42% over the same period last year. In the spirit of Apollo-Soyuz, the New Yorkers figure, Brezhnev may even invite them to a champagne lunch in the Kremlin...