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...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 the docking attempt. They also considered it possible that the ship's rookie commander, Air Force Lieut. Colonel Gennady Sarafanov, 32, and his engineer sidekick, Colonel Lev Demin, 48, the first grandfather in space, simply were unable to hitch up with their target. Whatever the cause, the shortened flight was an embarrassment to the Russians, who had advertised it as another warmup for next year's Apollo-Soyuz rendezvous...
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