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 ...ion, was concerned that the
group of ESA countries which sup
ports the Esrange sounding-rocket
base should continue to do so.
New Salyut crewing policy emerges BYCORDON HOOPER
ANALYSIS of recent Soyuz crew
assignments has revealed a new pat
tern. Previously it has been clear that
a cosmonaut would normally act as
the back-up crewman for one mission
and fly as prime on the next. But
it n...
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 ...ceived by the Queen, and dined with the
Prime Minister. They return to America on November 4 and will continue to brief the
Apollo 12 crew for their flight beginning on November 14.
The flights of Soyuz 6, 7 and 8
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tour de force for 1969, the kudos for putting the most men
simultaneously into space must go to Russia. With the
launch of Soyuz 8 (see Flight last week, page 586), Russia had...
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 ...LIGHT International, 3 July 1975
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Apollo service module Apollo command module
Docking unit
Soyuz orbital module
Soyuz command module
Soyuz service module
VHF-FM aerial
Soyuz docking target
Soyuz docking periscope
Apolfo docking target
VHF aerial
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 ...PACEFLIGHT
Soyuz facelift
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The Soyuz U2 will be boosted by new engines
Russia's space
booster, the Soyuz,
is receiving new
engines and
avionics.
TIM FURNISS/LONDON
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Reported launch failure
Salyut 2 failure in
Cosmos 557?
Soyuz 12
Soyuz 13
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 ...MANNED SPACECRAFT believed to be at least a component of an elementary orbital space station k was launched by the Soviet Union on April 19.
Almost four days later, on April 22, another spacecraft,
Soyuz 10, carried three men up to join it.
A brief Soviet announcement issued on April 19 stated
that the USSR had "launched an orbital scientific station,
Salyut, on April 19. The station was laun...
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 ...LIGHT International, 8 April 1978
Records galore for Salyut 6
THE successful series of flights in volving four manned Soyuz vehicles, one unmanned freighter and
the Salyut 6 orbital station displayed
with unusual clarity the objectives of
the Soviet space programme.
The events began on September 29,
1977, when t...
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 ...orce pilots, Jean-
Loup Chretien and Patrick Baudry,
to train for a joint flight with the
Soviet Union in early 1982. The
French Government accepted the
Soviet Union's offer of a free share
in a Soyuz flight in April 1979 and
an initial request for applicants
brought more than 400 candidates.
Slightly tougher tests than those for
Europe's first Spacelab crew were
carried out between Dece...
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 ...LIGHT International, 23 October 1969
landing at 1052 BST on October 16. Still no docking between
the two remaining spacecraft took place, although pictures
showing two Soyuz vehicles linked together were released in
Moscow during the early stages of the flight, and Soyuz 7
landed 96 miles north-west of Karaganda (and 18.5 miles
from the impact point of the previo...
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 ...48 FLIGHT International, 23 January 1969
The union of Soyuz 4 and 5
The name Soyuz (Union) was vindicated when, on January 16,
V. Shatalav (second from left) docked his Soyuz 4 spacecraft with
Soyuz 5 containing E. Khrunov (left), B. Volynov and A. Ye...
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 ...48 FLIGHT international, 23 January 1969
The union of Soyuz 4 and 5
The name Soyuz (Union) was vindicated when, on January 16,
V. Shatalov (second from left) docked his Soyuz 4 spacecraft with
Soyuz 5 containing E. Khrunov (left), 6. Volynov and A. Ye...
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 ...Union
Government film rarely seen in the West.
The scenes include the aftermath of the
infamous "Nedelin" launch-pad explosion
at the Baikonur Cosmodrome on 24
October, 1960; the wreckage of the Soyuz
1, in which Vladimir Komorov was killed
on 24 April, 1967; recovery workers
attempting to revive three dead cosmo
nauts after the Soyuz 11 landing on 30
June, 1971; and the world's first an...
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 ...LIGHT International. 23 January 1969 149
THE MOST AMBITIOUS Soviet manned space venture so far began at 0839BST on January 14 when Soyuz 4, carrying astronaut Lt Col Vladimir A. Shatalov, was launched
from the Baikonour space centre in Kazakhstan (ground
temperature at the time, — 23°C). The initial orbit was 107/
140 miles wi...
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 ...LIGHT International. 23 January 1969 149
THE MOST AMBITIOUS Soviet manned space venture so far began at 0839BST on January 14 when Soyuz 4, carrying astronaut Lt Col Vladimir A. Shatalov, was launched
from the Baikonour space centre in Kazakhstan (ground
temperature at the time, —23°C). The initial orbit was 107/
140 miles wit...
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 ...56 FLIGHT International, 7 November 1968
The launch of Soyuz 3 was televised by
Moscow Radio. Assessment of the size of
the vehicle is difficult since the rocket is
believed to have lifted from a sunken pad,
and the lower section of the first stage
was th...
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 ...ather like changing trains, Britain's first astronaut Helen Sharman was launched aboard the Soviet Soyuz TM12 from the Baikonur Cos
modrome on 18 May, arrived at the Mir
space station two days later, stayed for six
days and returned to Kazakhstan aboard
Soyuz TM11 on 26 May.
Such trips to Mir ...
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 ...296 FLIGHT International, 23 June 1979
Soyuz 34 extends
Soviet stay in orbit
THE planned long stay in space by
cosmonauts Vladimir Lyakhov and
Valery Ryumin, currently orbiting the
Earth in the Salyut 6 laboratory, has
been assured b...
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SOYUZ 15: STILL NO ANSWERS
The original purpose and the actual events of the Soyuz 15
flight still remain largely matters for conjecture. Within
17min of their safe night-landing on a state farm 48...
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docking dynamics. Manufacture of the two flight-qualified
Soyuz vehicles began in February 1974 and by the end of
the year they were ready for transfer to the launch site.
Several US-built items were installed in the vehicles,
although the Russians have d...
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 ...IGHT International, 21 January 1977
More Soviet space walks?
AFTER an eight-year layoff, Russia is v about to resume extra-vehicular activity ("space walks") on its manned
space flights. Since the Soyuz 5/Soyuz
4 crew transfer in January 1969, no
Soviet cosmonauts have gone outside
their vehicles. Crews have always
passed between Soyuz capsules and
Salyut space stations by means of
pressu...
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