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...Cosmonauts Aleksei Leonov and Valery Kubasov in practicing the maneuvering and docking of the two spacecraft. They crawled from one ship to another by passing through the "docking module" that links the spacecraft and acts as a decompression chamber (necessary because Soyuz and Apollo maintain different atmospheric pressures). The spacemen also rehearsed procedures they would follow in the event of such emergencies as a fire or loss of cabin pressure. At week's end the crews were preparing to leave for the Soviet launch center in Kazakhstan, which has never before been visited by U.S. astronauts...
...according to the Soviets, the crew could simulate some of the "docking maneuvers" that will be required in next year's linkup. (The description was somewhat misleading since the Russian ship will be the passive partner during the rendezvous; Apollo will do all the critical maneuvering.) The Russian spacemen also reduced cabin pressure to about 10 Ibs. per sq. in., or roughly midway between Apollo's 5 p.s.i. and the sea-level atmospheric pressure (14.7 p.s.i.) normally maintained in Soyuz. The same step will be taken during the joint mission before the cosmonauts transfer to the Apollo. Less...
...amazement, I found myself agreeing with Mike Collins and Arthur C. Clarke [Sept. 23]. Male astronauts certainly would be distracted by the sight of female astronauts' breasts bobbing weightlessly. The spacemen would not be able to perform their duties. It is not a case of cruel discrimination; it is simply a biological fact...
...those things you don't know you need until you don't have it." In the U.S. and round the world, there is a sense of diminished vision, of global problems that are overwhelming the capacity of leaders. As Journalist Brock Brower wrote three years ago, if Martian spacemen were to descend and demand, "Take me to your leader," the earthlings would not know where to direct them...
...signs of future activity at Canaveral is the line of surveyor stakes laid out for a new three-mile runway to land the shuttle on its returns to earth. But the first shuttle is not expected to be launched until around 1979-an eon away in spacemen's terms. Meanwhile, the hulking, $117 million Vehicle Assembly Building, which covers eight acres, seems destined to become the world's most expensive warehouse. Besides equipment for the U.S.-Russian flight, it now houses only the unused spare parts of previous programs-vehicles and rocket stages built for four Saturn spacecraft...