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...another day and a half in space before landing July 21 under its single large parachute in the deserts of Kazakhstan, east of the Russians' Baikonur launch site. The Apollo crewmen, whose ship has far greater fuel and oxygen capacity than the smaller Soyuz, planned to stay in orbit another three days after the Russians landed, to conduct a series of experiments...
...mission on the day of the launch, carrying the Soviet space story from the late cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin to live coverage of the Soyuz liftoff. Day after day, large headlines splashed across newspapers, pushing the official line that the joint flight was, as one edition of Izvestia trumpeted, an ORBIT OF COOPERATION. In Moscow, sidewalk traffic tapered off noticeably before the Soyuz launch, the first Soviet launch its citizens have ever been shown live, as shoppers gathered before TV sets or display in stores and shopwindows all over the city. The crowds were quietly attentive during the countdown...
...different ways the mission is a milestone for both sides. The Russians see ASTP as an important step in perfecting techniques that will enable them to orbit space stations capable of accommodating up to 120 people for periods as long as ten years. Says Representative Don Fuqua, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Space Science and Applications: "The Russians may try to leap ahead, embarrass us if they can, with a 'surprise' in manned space...
...Apollo's Annapolis-trained commander, is an Air Force brigadier general, a coolly gifted pilot and co-author of two basic manuals on test flying. Stafford has logged 290 hr. 15 min. in space, dating back to ins first Gemini flight in 1965 with Wally Scinrra. In orbit, Math Winz Stafford liked to amuse inmself by using pad and pencil to race mission control's computers in solving maneuvering problems; sometimes he won. Stafford was born in Weatherford, Okla., and he and ins wife Faye have two daughters. Though often nettled by Soviet secrecy during preparations for tins...
DONALD K. ("DEKE") SLAYTON, 51, docking-module pilot, is the oldest and among the toughest and most outspoken Americans ever to orbit the earth. A ruggedly handsome World War II bomber pilot, Wisconsin-born Slayton studied aeronautical engineering at the University of Minnesota; he and ins wife Marjory have an 18-year-old son. Slayton was one of the seven original Mercury astronauts. Only two months before ins scheduled liftoff, however, doctors grounded inm because of an occasional irregularity in ins heartbeat. Bitterly disappointed ("I got zapped by a three-man board of civilian doctors who didn't examine...