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...broadcast said the Soyuz 33 space capsule, which did not dock with the orbiting Salyut 6 space laboratory on Wednesday, parachuted to a soft landing last night...
Western aerospace engineers said yesterday that Soyuz 33 was unable to make the difficult approach maneuver and that similar problems in the past resulted in a Soyuz booster malfunction...
...observers added that yesterday's failure, and the disastrous mission of Soyuz 25 in October 1977, shows a weakness in the Soviet ability to form an orbiting "sausage" of several vehicles...
Troubles have plagued the Soyuz-Salyut program of manned space laboratories since its inauguration. The first Soyuz spacecraft, developed in 1967 to carry cosmonauts to and from orbiting space stations, crashed on its return, killing its cosmonaut...
...times by remote-controlled ferry craft, they conducted extensive observations of both the heavens and earth, and performed such experiments as growing crystals for electronic components and testing the effects of zero gravity on bacteria, and tried out a new, flexible space suit. All in all, said former Apollo-Soyuz Astronaut Tom Stafford, it was "a significant achievement...