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Last week the Soviet team had callers. From the fog-shrouded space station at Tyuratam, Kazakhstan, two more cosmonauts were launched into orbit aboard Soyuz 27. They were Air Force Lieut. Colonel Vladimir Dzhanibekov, 35, a pilot who is making his first space flight, and Oleg Makarov, 44, his civilian flight engineer whose two previous Soyuz missions included a flight that was aborted and forced to land in the snows of Siberia near the Chinese border in 1975. After chasing the blinking red and blue lights of Salyut round the earth for a day, the cosmonauts caught up with...
...devastations of World War II, the Soviet Union has risen to rival American influence around the world. Russia has become the planet's leading producer of crude oil, coal, steel, pig iron, locomotives mineral fertilizers and other products. Soviet scientific accomplishments - from Sputnik to Soyuz to two-headed does - are uneven but often dazzling...
...back." There is still more. A rather unnerving audio-visual display of how modern air traffic controllers work. A film called To Fly-so realistic that some viewers get airsick. Said a former Navy pilot: "My God, I'm getting vertigo." A life-size model of the Soviet Soyuz space vehicle coupled to an Apollo capsule for a display of the 1975 joint space venture. Also, of course, a model of Sputnik, the satellite that helped to goose America into space...
Harvard Observatory prepared experiments for the Apollo-Soyuz mission and is presently doing work on experiments and instrumentation proposed for NASA's future spacelab and retrievable space shuttle, and for future missions with the Soviets...
...slowly and to find out why. "If eating cornflakes or using toothpaste makes us age fast," he says, "we would now have no way of knowing this." What would it cost to develop techniques to slow aging in humans? On a reasonable guess, "one-fifth the cost of the Soyuz space circus plus some time. It might fail (so might the moon landing have done) but it probably will not. What we need to decide is whether we want...