Word: space
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
...Soviet-Bulgarian space team landed safely in Soviet Central Asia after failing to link up with an orbiting space laboratory, Moscow radio reported yesterday...
Tass News Agency said a malfunction in the "approach correction power unit" of the space capsule caused the last minute cancellation of the docking with the space station. Two Soviets, Vladimir Lyakhov and Valerie Ryumin, have been orbiting in Salyut 6 for six and one-half weeks...
They said such an approach involves a more difficult docking procedure than the technique developed for the U.S. space shuttle...
Yesterday's was the first disappointment in the Intercosmos space program, in which the Soviet Union trains Eastern Bloc cosmonauts. It dampened in the Soviet Union yesterday's celebrations of the eighteenth anniversary of the first manned space flight--that of a Russian...