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When Soyuz 16 landed safely on the snow-covered steppes of Kazakhstan last week after six days in orbit, Soviet space officials were exultant. The successful flight, they said, showed that their cosmonauts and spacecraft were capable of carrying out their assigned role in next July's historic orbital linkup of an American Apollo and Soviet Soyuz...
...insistence on secrecy; NASA has made a point of letting Russian officials tour the Apollo manufacturing facilities, but no American has been permitted to make a comparable inspection of the Soviet spacecraft during production. In fact, the U.S. astronauts will not see the Soviet ship they will visit in orbit until next May, barely two months before the actual liftoff...
...flight planners at NASA'S Ames Research Center have every reason to expect the 570-lb. nuclear-powered robot to survive the trip. If it does, it will send back closeup pictures and other data from the ringed planet. Of four Pioneers that were launched into solar orbit between 1965 and 1968 to monitor interplanetary space, all are still transmitting scientific data-even though they were designed by Pioneer's prime contractor, TRW Inc., to last only six months; only one is experiencing some difficulty with a solar sensor. Signals are also still coming from Pioneer 10, which...
...harbor some forms of life. To avoid risk of a collision that could contaminate Titan with earthly bugs, Pioneer will come no closer than 12,000 miles. Finally, the spacecraft will head out of the solar system, sending back signals that should continue at least until it reaches the orbit of Uranus (in 1985). After that the signals will be so faint that not even the largest antennas on earth will be able to pick them...
...been banned for the time being by the military regime, the ambassador says that only the Communist Party will remain outlawed. "We won't permit any political party which obeys foreign instructions and which belongs to systems outside the country, like Castro's Communism or countries in the Communist orbit." On the other hand, he continues, "If the Communists change their name to, say, the Progressive Party, and have a program of national interest, there is no problem at all. We want no foreign interests in our country. The Chilean government is for the Chileans, and not for others...