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...waves outside our restaurant window, and that would lead to thoughts about plasma physics." The two hit it off so well that Sagdeyev agreed to visit a restaurant that Thompson co-owns in upstate New York. Alas, the rendezvous never came off: "I was pre-empted by Cornell Planetary Scientist Carl Sagan, who arranged an elegant Japanese dinner in Sagdeyev's honor...
...there is more than luck involved, as Western experts make clear. "The Phobos mission," says Cornell Planetary Scientist Carl Sagan, "is not just world class. It is novel, diverse and appropriate. The whole idea is very clever." Notes Gerhard Neukum, of the German Aerospace Research Establishment: "The Mars mission is fantastic. It carries a huge set of instruments. They did it with Venus. Now they have focused on Mars, and it is to be expected that they will be equally successful." In fact, each of the probes will carry 25 instruments -- an enormous number, considering that the U.S.'s complex...
...interior of Mir, for example, has been painted in two colors to provide the crew with a sense of floor and ceiling. On Mir, cosmonauts get two days off each week and have special radio hookups so they can talk with their families and with virtually any sports figure, scientist or celebrity they choose...
Besides being an accomplished scientist and administrator, Sagdeyev is the Soviet Union's chief space diplomat. He spent more than two weeks in August flying from the U.S.S.R. to Hawaii, New York and Washington to recruit scientists for Soviet missions and to publicize Moscow's space program. His dizzying schedule of speeches, meetings and interviews has forced him to all but abandon his dacha outside Moscow and even his burning passion, chess. In recognition of his achievements at the Soviet Space Institute (IKI), he was chosen to head the Soviets' new Supercomputing Institute and was appointed as Soviet Leader Mikhail...
...student at Moscow University in the mid-1950s, he switched majors to study physics. "A physicist can still enjoy the beauty of mathematics and have a more intimate interaction with nature," he says. Sagdeyev also took up English, which he calls the "first necessity for a scientist." He passed along his appreciation of the language to his son and daughter, both computer scientists, and to his two small grandchildren...