Cosmonauts set to end mission
NZPA - Reuter Moscow j The two Soviet cosmonauts in Moscow’s latest space link-up mission looked set to return to Earth yesterday after barely two weeks on board their Salyut 5 orbital laboratory. The Soviet press reported that the mission commander, Viktor Gorbatko. and the light engineer. Yuri Glaz;ov. had completed their re,earch programme and were ireparing to uncouple their ioyuz 24 shuttle craft from lalyut for the return trip. As is usual in Soviet ■pace link-ups, the scheduled
landing time'and place were I not revealed. But if the (present mission follows the •’pattern of earlier flights, the :’spacemen should touch down .in Soviet central Asia this ilmorning. > The 14-day Salyut mission t; — one of the shortest such ■flights on record — sur- !■ prised many Western ob- , ’ servers in Moscow by its ? (brevity. ■ i It was widely expected ■■that Soyuz 24 would try to ! | better the Soviet space • (endurance record of 63 days II or even the absolute record of 84 da vs set by the third ’(United States Skvlab crew i'in 1974.
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Press, 25 February 1977, Page 7
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