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| Title: | Space Exploration |
| Notice: | Shuttle launch schedules, see Note 6 |
| Moderator: | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN |
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| Created: | Mon Feb 17 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Thu Jun 05 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 974 |
| Total number of notes: | 18843 |
84.0. "SOYUZ T-14 to Dock With SALYUT 7" by PYRITE::WEAVER () Tue Sep 17 1985 20:59
Associated Press Tue 17-SEP-1985 16:53 Soviets-Space
Three Cosmonauts Head for Space Rendezvous
By ALISON SMALE
Associated Press Writer
MOSCOW (AP) - Two rookie cosmonauts and a highly decorated space
veteran blasted into space on Tuesday, and headed for a rendezvous
with two colleagues who have been aboard the Salyut-7 space station
for more than three months.
Soviet television interrupted regular programming shortly before
7 p.m. (11 a.m. EDT) to show film of the Soyuz T-14 rocket carring
the three men through clear skies.
``We can feel the craft trembling, like a horse before the
start,'' one of the cosmonauts told television commentators before
liftoff. His voice was not identified.
Reports did not say where the launch took place, but manned
space missions usually leave from the top-secret Baikonur
Cosmodrome in northern Kazakhstan, 1,560 miles east of Moscow.
The official news agency Tass said the launch occurred at 4:39
p.m. (8:39 a.m. EDT) and that all systems on board the craft were
functioning normally.
Lt. Col. Vladimir Vasyutin, 33, the mission commander;
researcher Lt. Col. Alexander Volkov, 37; and veteran flight
engineer Georgy Grechko, 54, were said to be feeling fine.
There were no details of the trio's mission or when Soyuz T-14
would hook up with the Salyut-7 complex.
On June 6, veteran Vladimir Dzhanibekov, a veteran of five
missions, and engineer Viktor Savinykh rocketed into space aboard
the Soyuz T13.
They took twice the normal 24 hours to dock with the Salyut-7.
An unusual report in the Communist Party daily newspaper, Pravda,
later explained they made a manual docking because the ship was
drifting out of control, with all systems shut down by an
electrical fault.
Dzhanibekov and Savinykh undertook a risky repair job and have
since been reported in good health, more than three months into
their mission.
They have been reportedly conducting medical, geological and
other research in line with the Soviet Union's repeated assurances
that its space missions are entirely peaceful.
Moscow has repeatedly accused the United States of using space
research for military purposes. But U.S. space specialists contend
that Soviet cosmonauts, many of whom are members of the armed
forces, conduct military research aboard the Salyut-7.
Tass said the crew that lifted off on Tuesday left a message
that spacemen from different nations should spot each other through
the sights of a docking unit, not a laser weapon.
Vasyutin, commander of the latest Soviet mission, was born in
Kharkov in the Ukraine. He became a pilot at age 17 and has been
training as a cosmonaut since 1976.
Volkov is also a Ukrainian and, like Vasyutin, graduated from
the Kharkov Pilots' School. He joined the space-training program
the same year as his commander.
Grechko, who has twice won the highest military title of Hero of
the Soviet Union, set what was then a world endurance record in
March 1978, returning from a 97-day mission aboard the Salyut-6
station with fellow cosmonaut Yuri Romanenko.
He first went into space in 1975 as a flight engineer aboard the
Soyuz-17 craft that hooked up with the Salyut-4 space station.
Soviet space flight has concentrated on prolonged missions
testing human ability to endure weightlessness. The longest mission
to date ended in October 1984, when cosmonauts Leonid Kizim,
Vladimir Solovyev and Oleg Atkov returned to earth after 237 days.
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| 84.1 | | MOTHER::HUGHES | | Thu Sep 26 1985 10:17 | 9 |
| An interesting side note...
I beleive this is the first Three man crew to fly in a Soyuz since the death of
the cosmonauts returning in Soyuz-11. All flights since then had been two man
crews in order to have room for the cosmonauts to wear spacusuits during
launch/reentry. Presumably they now have sufficient faith in their spacecraft
integrity to do away with the spacesuit requirement.
gary
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| 84.2 | | SAUTER::SAUTER | | Thu Sep 26 1985 13:55 | 4 |
| Either that or the T-series has room for three men to wear
pressure suits during reentry. Or perhaps they have pressure
suits which are not so bulky.
John Sauter
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| 84.3 | | GODZLA::HUGHES | | Tue Oct 01 1985 14:28 | 11 |
| Yup, I goofed on that one.
The T series have all carried three men since Soyuz T-3 (Nov 1980). The first
two were shakedown flights. The Soyuz T has the same basic dimensions as
the original Soyuz so I do not think they are wearing pressure suits.
When I finish reading my latest acquisition (Janes Spaceflight Directory,
from the folks that brought you Janes All the Worlds Aircraft etc - $50,
but worth it), I'll update the information here.
gary
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| 84.4 | | PYRITE::WEAVER | | Thu Oct 03 1985 10:41 | 32 |
| Associated Press Wed 02-OCT-1985 12:48 Soviets-Space
Cargo Vessel Docks With Salyut-7 Station
MOSCOW (AP) - An unmanned space capsule carrying supplies and
equipment to three cosmonauts docked with the Salyut-7 orbital
laboratory on Wednesday, the official news agency reported.
The Cosmos-1686 cargo capsule was automatically docked with the
space lab by Soviet ground control crews and the cosmonauts working
aboard Salyut-7, Tass said.
Tass did not say how long the capsule would remain linked with
Salyut-7, although supply missions usually have lasted only a few
days, after which the capsule is jettisoned.
The delivery of supplies and last month's crew rotation may
indicate the Soviets plan to keep the space station staffed on a
permanent basis to avoid the kind of large-scale breakdown that
disabled Salyut-7 earlier this year.
Tass said only that the capsule ferried supplies and equipment
for continuation of the scientific research being conducted aboard
the space lab, which has been in orbit since April 1982.
Cosmonauts Viktor Savinykh, Alexander Volkov and Vladimir
Vasyutin are on Salyut-7. Savinykh has been aboard the space
station since June, when he and veteran cosmonaut Vladimir
Dzhanibekov arrived in the Soyuz T-13 spacecraft.
Last month the Soyuz T-14 spacecraft brought Volkov, Vasyutin
and Georgy Grechko. Dzhanibekov and Grechko returned to Earth
aboard Soyuz T-13 on Sept. 26, in what Tass described as the space
lab's first-ever partial crew rotation. Previously, Salyut-7 was
leftunmanned for months between missions.
Savinykh and Dzhanibekov were sent on June 6 to repair the
Salyut-7, which had ceased to function because of an electrical
fault. They restored the orbital complex to full working order, and
then began a series of scientific experiments.
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| 84.5 | | PYRITE::WEAVER | | Fri Oct 04 1985 14:24 | 46 |
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Subject: StarDate: September 29 The Salyut 6 Space Station
Posted: 29 Sep 85 06:00:34 GMT
Organization: U. Texas, Astronomy, Austin, TX
Xref: tektronix net.astro:00702
Today is the anniversary of the launch of the longest lived-in
structure in outer space. More -- in a minute.
September 29 The Salyut 6 Space Station
On this date in the year 1977, the Soviets launched what would become
the closest thing the world has known -- so far -- to a real space
station.
It was Salyut 6, which came down again in the summer of l982. Sixteen
crews of Soviet cosmonauts visited Salyut in the course of missions
that lasted from a few days to more than six months at a time.
While Salyut 6 was in orbit, the Soviets perfected a new technique for
sending supplies and fuel to the space station. They used robots --
unmanned capsules that they called "Progress" spacecraft -- which
automatically docked with the station. One of these automatic supply
ships was also used as a building block module. It was permanently
docked to Salyut 6 to nearly double the size of the structure. This
technique of adding modules to a basic structure will soon be used to
build other, even larger structures in space -- when Russia and the
United States start building larger space stations.
The Soviets now have another small space station in orbit -- Salyut 7
-- launched in 1983. This past July a new version of the robot
Progress capsule docked with Salyut 7. Designated Cosmos 1669, the
capsule carries its own independent electrical supply. Cosmos 1669
could be the prototype of a free-flying platform -- part of an orbital
complex of space structures.
In the meantime, there's no doubt that the Soviets will continue to
place cosmonauts in orbit -- to explore the potential of humans living
in space.
Script by Deborah Byrd and Diana Hadley.
(c) Copyright 1984, 1985 McDonald Observatory, University of Texas at Austin
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