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...chicken. We're friends in here." The newcomers even brought newspapers and letters from home. Then all four exchanged toasts in cherry juice squeezed from tubes. The docking 320 kilometers (200 miles) above the earth gave Russia another space-age first: the linkup of more than two spacecraft...
...astronauts in space since 1975, will be able to put together its own sausages when the space shuttle that is now being tested begins regular flights in the 1980s. But for the Soviets the feat is something of a breakthrough. While the U.S. showed it could dock spacecraft as long ago as the pre-moon shot Gemini 8 flight in 1966, the delicate skills required to bring together two space ships, both of which are traveling at speeds of 29.000 k.p.h. (18,000 m.p.h.), have often eluded the Soviets. (One explanation: they insist on controlling the maneuvers...
...release into space their voided urine, the liquid instantly freezes into millions of tiny ice crystals, which form a hemisphere and spray out in all directions from the exit nozzle. The same thing would happen to ordinary water, but none is ever dumped; it is all recycled through the spacecraft. "The most beautiful sight in orbit, or one of the most beautiful sights, is a urine dump at sunset," says Schweickart. "It's really spectacular." Well, as the French say, one man's meat is another man's poisson...
...this point, the movie has been strictly mediocre; if the movie is worth anything, it is because of a spectacular finale with some impressive special effects. Fortunately, the last 15 minutes of the movie will disappoint few people. The aliens arrive in a huge dazzling spacecraft as large as the mountain it lands next to. Several auxilliary space ships with adjunct paraphernalia will satisfy the craving of any sci-fi fan. The creatures return all the individualb that they had abducted earlier, including the boy (who became quite enamoured with the aliens), and, to top it off, the aliens make...
Though the U.S. was aware that the Soviets were nearing a breakthrough, Brown conceded that "we do not have an operational capability" to down other spacecraft. Oddly enough, the U.S. did have that capability in a limited form until 1975. The Pentagon had been developing a satellite inspector system (SAINT), but junked it before its first flight...