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...next July's historic linkup of a U.S. Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft. Both the American and Russian crews were confident that the flight would be successful; they all signed the jug of vodka, recorked it and promised to polish it off when they got back from orbit...
...Since the October war, Syria has been rearmed by the Soviets even beyond its prewar strength, at a cost of $2 billion. Predictably, the result has been to bring Syria closer to the Soviet orbit and render it the most belligerent of the Arab confrontation countries...
Marooned, which describes how American astronauts stranded in orbit are saved by a Russian spaceship, helped persuade the Soviets to take part in the historic joint mission...
...earth's rotation. But whether Mercury also has a liquid core is a subject of debate. Even if it does the planet probably rotates too slowly (once every 58⅔ earth days) for the dynamo effect to occur. Thus, as Mariner fell silent in its eternal orbit of the sun, it left behind a major mystery: How did Mercury acquire its magnetic field...
...star is Betelgeuse, a so-called red giant so large that it could encompass the inner solar system almost all the way out to the orbit of Jupiter. On a clear night last March, Astronomers Roger Lynds, Jack Harvey and Peter Worden took some 40 photographs of Betelgeuse, exposing each of the plates to the star's light for less than one-hundredth of a second...