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Even as the U.S. and the Soviet Union step up preparations for July's orbital linkup of an Apollo and a Soyuz spacecraft, many American officials have quietly been expressing their concern that Russian space skills may not be equal to the demands of that historic mission. Last week those doubts were dramatically reinforced. Only minutes after its launch, a Soyuz spacecraft with two cosmonauts on board made a forced landing some 1,000 miles downrange in the rugged 13,000-ft.-high Altai Mountains of western Siberia...
...line dispatch, Tass reported that the mission was aborted when an upper stage of the Vostok booster rocket began carrying Soyuz 18 off course; at that point, the rocket shut down automatically and the spacecraft was set free for return to earth. The two cosmonauts, Vasily Lazarev, 46, and Oleg Makarov, 41, seem to have escaped injury, but Western observers pointed out that if the upper-stage engine had fired a few seconds longer, the cosmonauts might well have come down in China...
About 70 scientists will examine preliminary plans today for an unmanned moon-orbiting spacecraft proposed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Edward D. Martin, manager of advance programs for NASA's Lunar Programs Office, said yesterday...
...include George C. Weiffenbach '49, associate director for the Center for Astrophysics, Edward M. Gapaschkin, an associate of the center, and Paul C. Gorenstein, an associate of the center and a lecturer on Astronomy, will meet at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., to discuss the spacecraft before submitting experiment proposals, Martin said...
...space powers developed a common docking mechanism. In Marooned, the cosmonaut had to leave his ship and take a risky "space walk" before he could deliver oxygen to the Americans. The point was not lost on the Russians, who then were having trouble with their Soyuz spacecraft. They promised Handler they would recommend the idea to their political leaders...