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Even as the U.S. proudly hailed Apollo 7 and its crew, the Soviets launched an impressive reminder that they are still running hard in the race to the moon. With no advance fanfare, Russia's tenth manned spacecraft, Soyuz 3, soared into orbit, piloted by fledgling Cosmonaut Colonel Georgy Beregovoy, 47. On the craft's very first pass around the earth, he made a rendezvous with Soyuz 2, an unmanned spacecraft that had been fired aloft the dav before...
...latest docking pas de deux in the Cosmos series, U.S. space watchers say, increases chances that Russia will send its cosmonauts to a moon landing from an earth orbit. The spacecraft that were hooked together were of the Soyuz type, each with a capacity of from three to six men. Manned, a two-Soyuz hookup could be a counterpart to the U.S. Air Force's proposed manned orbiting laboratory. Four or five of them, linked up like spokes of a wheel, could serve as an assembly plant for a manned lunar vehicle...
Despite the controversy and the most recent Soviet space achievements, U.S. experts are still convinced that they will be first to put a man on the moon-probably by late next year. The Soviet moon schedule, they point out, was set back a year by the disastrous malfunction of Soyuz 1 (TIME, May 5), which took the life of Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov. As a result, the Russians have been forced to increase the tempo of space activity. They are now spending twice as much as the U.S., and even hold a spare booster rocket in readiness during each major space...
Probably launched from the Tyuratam Cosmodrome in central Kazakhstan, the first of the satellites, Cosmos 186, lifted off on Oct. 27. Western scientists immediately noted that it was traveling in an orbit remarkably similar to that of Soyuz 1, which crashed on landing last April, killing Soviet Cosmonaut Vladimir M. Komarov. Three days later, a cylindrical object called Cosmos 188 was rocketed aloft into the same orbital track, a scant 14.9 miles from Cosmos 186. The accuracy was remarkable, but it had to be. Western space experts have learned that Russian spacecraft radar lacks power for long-range precision...
...addition to the mellow overture, Keldysh insisted that "there will be no manned launchings before the holidays." But Western space officials were keenly aware that Cosmos 186 had probably solved the soft-landing problems that turned Soyuz 1 into a funeral pyre. And noting that the U.S.S.R. has reportedly asked India for permission to land a manned capsule on its territory in the future, they speculated at week's end that the eventual result of last week's rendezvous will be a circumlunar mission destined to end with a landing in-or near-India...