Spacecraft docks with Salyut orbiter
NZPA-Reuter Moscow A Soviet spacecraft, launched on Wednesday with two men and a woman aboard, has docked with the orbiting space station Salyut 7, Moscow radio reports. The crew had entered the station to join three cosmonauts who have been aboard Salyut 7 since February, it said. The spacecraft, Soyuz Tl2, had manoeuvred in its flight path yesterday to prepare for the docking, said the Soviet news agency, Tass. Western experts believe that the spacecraft’s crew is likely to spend a week
aboard Salyut 7 with the three other cosmonauts, al! male. The Soyuz cosmonauts, Colonel Vladimir Dzhanibekov, Svetlana Savitskaya and Igor Volk, were launched into space on Wednesday morning (N.Z. time). Western space experts think that the Soviet Union wants to use Ms Savitskaya’s visit to get information on the physical effects of space travel on women. Her first flight was hailed as a success by Soviet officials.
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