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...extraordinary situation." That may indeed be true. But if for any reason Soyuz does not make it into orbit, NASA will not be entirely unprepared. The space agency has quietly planned an alternative flight in which the U.S. team would try to rendezvous and dock with the abandoned Skylab space station, which is still circling the earth...
...notable work abroad. Raymond Loewy, at 81 the dean of French designers, has lived for more than 50 years in the U.S., where he has produced hundreds of ideas, including the classic "double-fronted" 1953 Studebaker, the new Exxon corporate logo and the living quarters for NASA's Skylab. Next year the Smithsonian Institution will honor Loewy's work with a retrospective exhibition that will eventually be seen in Moscow as well...
...while fellow astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first human beings to take an extraterrestrial walk. Now a brigadier general (U.S. Air Force, ret.), Collins is director of the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum, which will soon house flying relics from the earliest balloons through Skylab...
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...
...Berry, the Apollo moon landings and the Skylab missions are only the first small steps. He predicts that by the next century, attempts will be made to establish lunar bases-perhaps as astronomical observatories unhampered by the earth's obscuring atmosphere. Mining and other industrial activities will soon follow. Eventually there may be "low-gravity" lunar hospitals, where ailing limbs and organs would be under less strain than on the earth...