Medals for Soviet cosmonauts
NZPA-Reuter Moscow The Soviet President, Konstantin Chernenko, has presented medals to the three cosmonauts who set a space endurance record of 237 days, praising their flight as a great feat of courage and science, Tass news agency reports. “The flight has become weighty evidence of the path we have chosen in developing cosmonautics,” Mr Chernenko said at the award ceremony in the Kremlin.
“It has highlighted the reliability and high quality of Soviet space technology, the talent of those who develop it, and the cosmonauts’ deft skills in using it,” he said. Soviet scientists have hailed the flight of Lieuten-ant-Colonel Leonid Kizim, Dr Oleg Atkov, and Vladimir Solovyov as a major step towards the goal of developing permanently manned orbital space stations, an aim of the United States space programme also.
Soviet cosmonauts are traditionally awarded medals after every space flight.
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