Word: spaceship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...those who care about such matters the event was as electrifying as the descent of a Martian spaceship. Abed recovering from pneumonia, Paul Buckley, senior scientist for the National Park Service in Boston, promptly got up on hearing the news of the sighting and drove straightway to Salisbury, Mass. Four Maryland enthusiasts drove all night to the site. One businessman winged in from Los Angeles. Friends desperately tried to get word to an expert vacationing in Africa to return at once. As the week wore on, cars with an array of license plates from across the nation flocked to Salisbury...
...week stay. The Americans were most interested in the Soyuz spacecraft that the cosmonauts used to reach the orbiting space station. Soyuz is the same type of ferry craft that the Russians will launch next July in a space-age milestone: the linkup of a U.S. and a Soviet spaceship in the first international manned space mission...
...year life-style that is shaped by five marriages and seven children. Last week Wheeler-Dealer Mailer brought off the coup of his career: a record $1 million from Little Brown for a proposed saga about "a family from ancient history to future history" which will end aboard a spaceship. Swearing off such distractions as TV appearances and journalistic ephemera, Mailer has retired to his Stockbridge, Mass., house to write the novel over the next few years. Commenting on the largest known sum paid for a work of fiction, New York Publisher Roger Straus said: "It's crazy...
Since the death of three cosmonauts on their way back to earth in June 1971, the Soviet Union has had little to boast about in its manned space program. Last week finally brought some good news from Moscow. For the second time in three months, a two-man spaceship was successfully launched from the Baikonur space complex in Soviet Central Asia. Barely two hours after Soyuz 13's liftoff, Soviet officials took the unusual step of showing live television pictures of the rookie cosmonauts: Air Force Major Pytor Klimuk and Aviation Engineer Valentin Lebedev. That was a sure sign...
...space officials had every reason to be equally pleased. The Soyuz spacecraft, extensively modified since the hatch failure that caused the 1971 accident, will be used by the Russians in their proposed 1975 linkup with a U.S. Apollo spaceship. (U.S. astronauts who will participate in that flight recently completed a two-week stint at Star City, the Soviet cosmonaut training center outside Moscow, where they demonstrated their skills on Soyuz simulators.) Thus NASA wants every possible assurance that Soviet engineers have eliminated all Soyuz design bugs. Indeed, Western observers, noting that the Soviets had said that the main purpose...