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...Moscow and a call at last month's 24th Soviet Communist Party Congress for a "piloted orbiting station." Hailed by headlines in Moscow newspapers, Salyut seemed clearly intended to function as the core unit of what Russian sources called an "orbiting shish kebab," with a number of manned spacecraft attached...
...mile orbit, placing it above Salyut's path. Observed Flight Commander Vladimir Shatalov, 43: "Looks like you threw us up a bit too high. Well, it doesn't matter, we'll fix it." By briefly firing Soyuz's engine, the crew lowered the spacecraft's orbit. At week's end they had rendezvoused and docked successfully with Salyut for 5½ hours. But then Soyuz undocked and returned its three-man crew safely to earth, inexplicably leaving the space station's central unit, Salyut, alone hi orbit...
...that in reality will probably be done better by machines. British Geneticist J.B.S. Haldane called for certain regressive mutations to enable man to survive in space, including legless astronauts who would take up less room in a space capsule and require less food and oxygen (larger and more powerful spacecraft would seem to be an easier and less monstrous solution). Haldane also suggested apelike men to explore the moon. "A gibbon," he said only half-jokingly, "is better preadapted than a man for life in a low gravitational field...
...reach the solar system's largest planet, a flight that could take two years or more. Pioneer F will have to survive a hazard never before encountered by a spacecraft: it will have to pass through the asteroid belt, which consists of some 50,000 asteroids that circle the sun between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. If Pioneer runs the rocky gauntlet successfully, the way will be cleared for further explorations of the outer planets by unmanned spacecraft making Grand Tours* later in the decade, as well as future flights by man himself. A serious accident...
...passes within 100,000 miles of Jupiter, Pioneer F will conduct a total of 13 experiments and radio the results back to mission controllers at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif. A complex array of detectors, which poke out of the cone-shaped spacecraft like antennae on a monstrous insect, will measure, among other things, magnetic fields, ultraviolet and infrared radiation, cosmic rays, meteoroid density and the intensity of the solar wind (charged atomic particles streaming from...