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...more than a month two Soviet cosmonauts have been circling the earth in the 65-ft.-long Salyut 6 space station, observing the earth, performing experiments in weightless conditions, growing algae as a possible food for future space travelers, donning new, improved space suits, and even erecting a small New Year's tree inside their 19-ton home away from earth...
...smooth as a peeled egg." The Kremlin promptly hailed the joint mission with yet another barrage of pronouncements. Exulted Izvestia: SUCCESS IN OUTER SPACE FOR PEACE. The Russians had more reason to crow. At week's end the two cosmonauts who had been aloft in a Salyut space station all through the Apollo-Soyuz mission returned safely to earth after 63 days in space, a Soviet record...
...before. The U.S. had faithfully advised their Soviet counterparts of all 21 planned American experiments months in advance. More embarrassing to NASA, the Soviets casually let it be known only two weeks ago that they probably would keep the two cosmonauts who have been circling the earth in the Salyut 4 space lab since the end of May in space through ASTP. That was clearly a bit of orbital oneupmansinp: the Russians would have two separate teams in space during the joint mission against the lone American crew...
...safely manage two missions simultaneously. Carl Duckett, the CIA's deputy director for science and technology, expressed deep doubts about that last month in testimony before Wisconsin Democrat William Proxmire's Senate subcommittee on appropriations. In response, Proxmire urged NASA to postpone the mission until the Salyut cosmonauts returned to earth. But NASA officials rejected the idea, saying that they had full confidence in the Soviet flight controllers...
...underwent a radical overhaul after three cosmonauts were killed when a hatch seal failed in a 1971 flight. Even that redesign did not eliminate all the bugs. At the time of its previous test in August, Soyuz 15's thrusters failed during an attempted linkup with an unmanned Salyut space station...