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When Soyuz 15 was launched last week from the Soviet space center in Kazakhstan, every sign pointed to another attempt to link up with the Salyut 3 space station, which has been orbiting the earth since last June. Yet after only two days aloft, Soyuz 15 returned abruptly to earth without docking with the lab. The landing, made at night and in bad weather, seemed to underline the urgency of the return. What had gone wrong? As usual, the Soviets admitted no problem, but American space analysts speculated that Soyuz's electrical power plant may have failed during...
After failing at least three times in attempts to complete a Skylab-type orbital mission, the Russians were not about to take any unnecessary risks in their latest effort. As Cosmonauts Pavel Popovich and Yuri Artyukhin, both 44, whirled around the earth aboard their Salyut 3 space station, ground control sternly refused to let them listen to the semifinal match between Poland and Brazil in the World Cup championship. The excitement, the controllers feared, might stir up the cosmonauts' pulse beats and blood pressure. But after a while, Soccer Nut Popovich could bear the suspense no longer. "How did they...
...space officials had equal reason to cheer?not for the Poles but for what (so far) seemed like a successful Soviet space mission. Launched just before the Nixon-Brezhnev summit, Salyut 3 was subsequently boarded July 4 by the two cosmonauts for what appeared to be a two-week stay. The Americans were most interested in the Soyuz spacecraft that the cosmonauts used to reach the orbiting space station. Soyuz is the same type of ferry craft that the Russians will launch next July in a space-age milestone: the linkup of a U.S. and a Soviet spaceship...
...earth orbit. But the cosmonauts-including Leonov and his sidekick, Engineer Valery Kubasov, who are the prime crewmen for the mission-seemed to be particularly interested in another American spacecraft. While touring a mock-up of the giant Skylab space station-which is significantly larger than the Soviet Salyut-they poked into every compartment within sight, flipped countless switches, and bombarded their hosts with endless questions...
...Salyut was not the only source of problems for Russian rocketeers. Four weeks ago a giant Proton booster - the largest Soviet rocket - apparently failed during liftoff, sending its payload crashing into the Pacific off eastern Siberia. U.S. space observers believe that the cargo, destined for the moon, included an improved version of the highly successful Soviet lunar rover...