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Though their huge unmanned Salyut (Salute) supercraft continued to circle the earth last week, the Russians failed to achieve their ambitious goal: a manned orbital space station. In fact, there was growing belief among Western space experts that the much-heralded mission of Salyut and Soyuz 10 never really recovered from a shaky start...
Cosmodromes on the barren steppes of Kazakhstan trembled with the thunder of departing rockets last week. An unmanned space vehicle named Salyut (Salute) roared off its launch pad and was sent into a near-earth orbit. It was followed four days later by a three-man crew in Soyuz (Union) 10. As many as three additional Soyuz ships were reported poised to join the others in orbit. Ten years after Yuri Gagarin's pioneering flight, the Soviet Union had seemingly begun its most ambitious venture into space: a long-expected attempt to assemble a manned station hi earth orbit...
...launch of Salyut-believed to be a cylindrical craft 60 ft. long, 30 ft. in diameter, and weighing as much as 50 tons-followed a week of rumors hi Moscow and a call at last month's 24th Soviet Communist Party Congress for a "piloted orbiting station." Hailed by headlines in Moscow newspapers, Salyut seemed clearly intended to function as the core unit of what Russian sources called an "orbiting shish kebab," with a number of manned spacecraft attached...
Switched Emphasis. Then, during the predawn hours Friday, Western radio telescopes picked up a second craft racing in pursuit of Salyut. Observers saw the two ships, shining as brightly as first-magnitude stars, crossing the night skies of northern Europe. Actually, Soyuz 10 was given a bigger boost than intended, and it arced into a 130-by 154-mile orbit, placing it above Salyut's path. Observed Flight Commander Vladimir Shatalov, 43: "Looks like you threw us up a bit too high. Well, it doesn't matter, we'll fix it." By briefly firing Soyuz...