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Scientists in both countries have been urging joint space ventures to save money and pool information. That now becomes a reality as plans go forward for a 1975 rendezvous in orbit of American and Soviet space ships (see story, page 19). The two countries agreed to pool research and resources...
For the first joint U.S.-Soviet space venture, the Russians had originally proposed an ambitious series of rendezvous and docking maneuvers by three spacecraft, including their 20-ton Salyut space laboratory. But just a few weeks ago, the Soviets suggested a less complex linkup of only two ships. They explained...
Cunard was "99½% sure" that the call was a hoax, Chairman Victor Matthews reported later. Nevertheless the company procured the cash in Manhattan and waited for a second call, which never came. Meanwhile, at an R.A.F. base in Wiltshire, England, a four-man bomb-disposal team climbed aboard a...
Although this particular cross-country trip is fictional, the inconveniences experienced by the passengers and crew are all too real. In an age when man can rendezvous and dock spacecraft high above the earth, travel to the moon with pinpoint accuracy and send payloads to much more distant targets in...
Not far from the Asian mainland, 6623 made a rendezvous with a KC-135 tanker, which topped up her tanks for the run over Viet Nam and back. A short time later, Captain Larry Underwood, 27, the electronics warfare officer, detected the first traces of enemy radar bouncing off 6623...