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...1980s, and the first manned spacecraft from earth has finally landed on Mars after a five-month journey. The television camera shows two figures poised on the bottom rung of the spacecraft's ladder, ready to set foot on Martian soil. Simultaneously the two men take the women tous step and in rapid succession make their historic statements - one in Eng lish, the other in Russian. Indeed, bilingualism is symbolic of the entire mis sion. For man's first voyage to Mars is a dramatic undertaking involving both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R...
...first joint U.S.-Soviet space venture, the Russians had originally proposed an ambitious series of rendezvous and docking maneuvers by three spacecraft, including their 20-ton Salyut space laboratory. But just a few weeks ago, the Soviets suggested a less complex linkup of only two ships. They explained that any larger enterprise might prove to be too unmanageable in space. Even in its scaled-down version, however, the project will be an impressive undertaking...
...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...
...rimmed rings. Clasped together like interlocking fingers, the first three pairs of latches to meet will provide a preliminary hookup, or "soft" dock. The eight other pairs will assure a final "hard" connection. Indeed, U.S. space officials are hoping that such a mechanism will be standard on all future spacecraft of both nations, including the proposed U.S. space shuttle...
...near-disastrous flight of Apollo 13. Neither side has made its final selection of crewmen, but the U.S. front runners include: Tom Stafford, a veteran of Gemini 6 and 9 and Apollo 10; Donald ("Deke") Slayton, the hard-driving 48-year-old chief of flightcrew operations for the Manned Spacecraft Center; and Jack Swigert, a veteran of Apollo...