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...Thuy's work as an agitprop handyman that brought him into Ho's orbit. In 1950 Thuy was sent abroad, and he is a widely traveled rarity among North Vietnamese officials. Fluent in French and Chinese, he has touted Hanoi's line in Vienna, Stockholm and Rangoon, as well as Peking, Moscow and other Communist capitals, where he has generally appeared in the guise of a journalistic commissar. The softspoken, stumpy Thuy, whose name means spring water, emulates stay-at-home apparatchiki in one respect: his private life is shadowed in secrecy. Thuy is known to have...
...latest docking pas de deux in the Cosmos series, U.S. space watchers say, increases chances that Russia will send its cosmonauts to a moon landing from an earth orbit. The spacecraft that were hooked together were of the Soyuz type, each with a capacity of from three to six men. Manned, a two-Soyuz hookup could be a counterpart to the U.S. Air Force's proposed manned orbiting laboratory. Four or five of them, linked up like spokes of a wheel, could serve as an assembly plant for a manned lunar vehicle...
...manned rendezvous in space since Gemini 6 and 7 first got together in December 1965, and the U.S. has all the guidance and control equipment necessary for automatic docking Soviet style. More significant, say NASA scientists, would be the safe return to earth of Luna 14 from its orbit around the moon. Such an accomplishment would open the way to a manned circumlunar flight, which would place the U.S.S.R. ahead of the U.S. in at least one heat of the moon race...
NASA has yet to decide whether or not it will fly a manned circumlunar orbit before attempting to land a man on the moon. Some NASA officials believe that such a preparatory flight would improve the chances for a trouble-free descent to the lunar surface. Others oppose it. Once an Apollo is in orbit around the moon with all its equipment functioning, runs the argument, why not go for broke...
...rocket engine. The Russians have no moon rocket to compare with the Saturn 5, which is capable of 7,500,000 Ibs. of thrust. NASA Administrator James Webb believes they will soon test a moon booster with a 10,000,000-lb. thrust capacity. With the first manned Apollo orbit scheduled for August and a Saturn 5-powered orbital mission tentatively set for November, NASA estimates that the U.S. still has a half-year lead...