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...what appeared to be a two-week stay. The Americans were most interested in the Soyuz spacecraft that the cosmonauts used to reach the orbiting space station. Soyuz is the same type of ferry craft that the Russians will launch next July in a space-age milestone: the linkup of a U.S. and a Soviet spaceship in the first international manned space mission...
...space officials had every reason to be equally pleased. The Soyuz spacecraft, extensively modified since the hatch failure that caused the 1971 accident, will be used by the Russians in their proposed 1975 linkup with a U.S. Apollo spaceship. (U.S. astronauts who will participate in that flight recently completed a two-week stint at Star City, the Soviet cosmonaut training center outside Moscow, where they demonstrated their skills on Soyuz simulators.) Thus NASA wants every possible assurance that Soviet engineers have eliminated all Soyuz design bugs. Indeed, Western observers, noting that the Soviets had said that the main purpose...
Americans will soon participate in those activities. Rising along the banks of a pretty artificial lake are quarters that will be occupied by U.S. astronauts when they come to Star City to train with their Soviet counterparts for the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz linkup. Shatalov thinks that the Americans will like their surroundings. "This is a healthful, quiet and serious place for training," he said. Then, he added, amiably, "just like Houston...
Death Revealed. Marshal Ivan S. Konev, 75, Russian World War II hero who led his troops to the historic linkup with U.S. soldiers on the Elbe River in 1945; after a long illness; in Moscow. A stern leader and wily strategist, Konev engineered Russia's first serious counterattack against the invading Nazis in 1941, three years later became the first Soviet army commander to penetrate German territory. Equally adept at political infighting, he allied himself with Nikita Khrushchev after the war and in 1953 presided over the tribunal that sentenced Stalin's Secret Police Chief Lavrenti Beria...
...solar system will not be completely lost. Next year NASA will use one of its surplus Saturns to launch Skylab, a primitive orbital station in which three men will remain in space for up to 56 days. In 1975 a spare Apollo will take part in the greatly publicized linkup with a Soviet Soyuz, an operation that will serve as a gesture of amity between the two great space rivals and also help develop space-rescue techniques. Finally, in the late 1970s NASA hopes to fly its vaunted space shuttle-a hybrid of spaceship and rocket plane that could ferry...