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America has too many domestic problems to continue Secretary Kissinger's shuttle diplomacy. If the Secretary is hooked on world travel, he should be "shuttlecrafted" to Skylab. Then he can orbit the world every two hours...
...Soyuz spacecraft is too "primitive" to bother docking with should realize that if it weren't for the launching of that spacecraft, we would not be launching an Apollo for any reason. The Soyuz program, however primitive it may be, is still advancing steadily. By contrast, Apollo and Skylab are dead. When viewed in this light, it is actually the Soviets who are condescending to dock with us. Soyuz is just coming into its own, while Apollo is putting on its encore performance...
...astronauts returned to earth, and has since written dozens of space stories on subjects as diverse as Skylab, extraterrestrial intelligence and proposals to colonize the moon. "Space exploration," Golden says, "shows human beings in their finest moments-adventuring, dreaming and looking to the future." As we went to press three days before the Russian and American lift-offs, all hands here hoped that the mission would take place on schedule-and safely...
...breakthrough. In a sense, both Apollo and its 20-story Saturn IB booster are antiques, having been built some nine years ago for the moon program. Still, unexpected gremlins can turn up in even the most time-tested equipment and procedures, witness the repeated difficulties encountered by the three Skylab missions...
...looking command-module pilot, is the quiet man of the American crew. A former Marine Corps and civilian test pilot with a degree in aeronautical engineering from the University of Colorado, he joined the astronaut corps in 1966, and was a back-up crewman for several moon flights and Skylab. One of the pluses of being involved in the joint flight, says Brand, is "having an opportunity to see how another culture operates." Among ins discoveries: spacemen are far better known in Russia than in the U.S. Not much interested in publicity inmself, Brand likes to spend ins free tune...