Word: soyuz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...multimillion-dollar fee, a corporate sponsor could get permission to use Juno's logo in its packaging and ads, possibly send company employees to the launching site and have its ads plastered on the Soyuz rocket and even the British astronaut's space suit. Says Saatchi spokesman Bill Jones: "If we are successful, this guy will go up looking like a racing driver...
...When the great scorecard for 1988 Soviet achievements is totted up, Mikhail Gorbachev's perestroika campaign may receive a modest 8.0 (a bit wobbly on the takeoff) and the return of the Soyuz spacecraft will be lucky to secure a 7.5 (very shaky on the landing). But the Soviet gymnasts, men and women alike, will score a 10 because their performance in Seoul was just that: perfect...
Trouble struck the Soyuz TM-5 spacecraft soon after it left the Soviet orbiting space station Mir and started on its way home. The cosmonauts had just completed a six-day mission in which they performed routine experiments with the two Mir cosmonauts, who are spending a year in space. Lyakhov, 47, and Mohmand, 29, an Afghan pilot, had returned to the two-stage Soyuz capsule for the three-hour trip back to the Soviet Union, leaving Physician Valeri Polyakov behind to continue monitoring the health of the station crew...
...successfully completed the separation from Mir early Tuesday morning, then crawled into the cramped re-entry vehicle and jettisoned the compartment of the Soyuz craft that contained toilet facilities and living space. They had just settled in to await the firing of the computer-controlled rocket that was programmed to decelerate the spacecraft from its orbital speed for the descent into the atmosphere. Accounts of what happened next differ, but indications are that as the ship passed through a twilight region of space between day and night, an infrared sensor, which fixes the spacecraft's position in relation to earth...
Even so, there are other, more formidable barriers. Past cooperative space ventures have been closely tied to politics. The 1975 Apollo-Soyuz mission, for example, sprang from an earlier era of detente. The costly linkup between the orbiting U.S. and Soviet capsules (price tag: $300 million) was promoted to test compatible docking systems but had little scientific value: the flight was the last for the Apollo program. Prospects for more joint missions disappeared in December 1979, when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan. "These missions start for policy reasons and stop for political reasons," says Nancy Lubin, a Government expert...