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...nautical miles) orbit above the earth. At a greater tilt to the equator than the orbits used during the U.S. moon shots, it will carry Apollo directly over the Soviets' Tyuratam cosmo drome in central Asia. From there, the Russians will loft a two-man Soyuz spacecraft into a slightly higher orbit of 145 miles. Apollo will then begin a sequence of maneuvers, lasting another day or so, to raise its elevation and bring it within sight of Soyuz. When the ships are finally linked up, the astronauts and cosmonauts will begin their joint activities, including an exchange...
...built by the U.S. at an estimated cost of $50 million and carried aloft in the second stage of the Saturn booster, the cylinder-10 ft. long and 5 ft. in diameter-will be pulled from the booster by the Apollo command ship. In position between Apollo and Soyuz during the docking, it will act as an essential decompression chamber for men passing from Soyuz's "normal" atmosphere of 70% nitrogen and 30% oxygen (at sea-level pressure of 14.7 Ibs. p.s.i.) to Apollo's low-pressure (5 Ibs. p.s.i.) atmosphere of pure oxygen.* If they...
...space mission that could come as early as 1974. The most likely first step, Americans and Soviet planners decided, will be to dock an Apollo spacecraft with a Russian space station similar to the Salyut now in orbit. Following this, the space scientists envision a link-up between a Soyuz spacecraft and an American Skylab scheduled for launch...
...Russians meanwhile are moving steadily ahead. Despite the disastrous end of Soyuz 11, they are launching payloads of all kinds at almost three times the U.S. rate. It almost seems, says Norman Mailer, who chronicled the first lunar landing in his book Of a Fire on the Moon, as if Americans no longer find any poetry in the quest to reach the stars...
...terrestrial version of their moon rover and reviewed the myriad details of their lengthy flight plans in the final hours of the countdown. Even the Russians helped. In response to NASA's inquiries, Soviet space officials assured the U.S. that the recent deaths of three cosmonauts aboard Soyuz 11 were not the result of any new problems that might imperil the Apollo 15 astronauts...