Word: salyut
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unlike the Americans, the Soviets have been single-minded and persistent in pursuit of this goal. Their most recent and notable achievements have been the coupling in March of the Salyut 7 orbital station with an unmanned Cosmos satellite and then in June with the manned Soyuz T-9 capsule to form a single orbiting complex. The linking of the Cosmos with Salyut 7 has doubled the amount of working space available to cosmonauts aboard the space station. In addition, the latest Cosmos has thruster jets that enable it to change the orbit of the whole complex, leading TASS...
...capabilities of the Salyut-Cosmos-Soyuz complex are currently being tested by the cosmonaut team of Vladimir Lyakhov and Alexander Alexandrov, who joined Salyut on June 28. (A previous docking attempt by three other cosmonauts in April was aborted, because of a faulty guidance system.) As usual, the Soviets have been vague in defining the nature of experiments conducted by the pair, other than to admit that it includes orbital photography...
Savitskaya's 1982 journey, by contrast, was an undisputed success. A flying instructor and test pilot, she is a model of physical fitness. She and two male companions successfully hooked up with the Salyut 7 space station and spent a week on board with resident Cosmonauts Anatoli Berezovoi and Valentin Lebedev. Savitskaya suffered no discomfort at all. She did, however, have to endure some heavy-handed Soviet male humor. Boarding the space station, Lebedev smilingly invited her to do the cooking and cleaning. Said he: "We've got an apron ready for you, Sveta...
...decade ago. Says former Astronaut Mike Collins: "We didn't have much of a problem with space sickness as long as we were strapped in Mercury and Gemini. Same for the Russians. It's when we all began floating around in Skylab and the Russians in Salyut that the guys began getting sick...
...erratic engines and, on this last mission, the exasperating and puzzling $32 million loss of two jettisoned solid-propellant boosters that sank into the Atlantic Ocean, the shuttle remains a unique vehicle, an emblem of national technological excellence unlike anything in the Soviet space arsenal. That would include their Salyut 7 space station, which was pointedly visited by three cosmonauts, one of them a Frenchman, while Columbia circled the earth several hundred miles below it. As Reagan noted, the space shuttle shows the world that "Americans still have the know-how and Americans still have the true grit that conquered...