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Central Intelligence Agency · 1990-01-01 · 53 pages · text by OCR
This Central Intelligence Agency file is a 1991 JPRS translation, report JPRS-USP-91-005. It carries the annotation and text of a Soviet brochure on the space program, written by one of the first cosmonauts. The brochure reviews what manned and unmanned spaceflight have achieved and calls the American lunar program a costly dead end pursued for prestige. It then proposes future tasks, including environmental monitoring satellites, orbiting factories, an international monitoring system, Mars sample return, radio telescopes and space robots.
“Works”27 pages
- p. 1 …We have found out that man can live and work in orbit for a year (and…
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technology, or economics for a man working in…
- p. 3 …after all, the space hardware has been working, so to speak, for itself.
32. Here we…
- p. 8 …We worked diligently, without any fascile optimism. After our first successes, many Americans probably felt some…
- p. 9 …Soviet scientists working in basic sciences feel that in the next decade we should concentrate our…
- p. 10 …Such activity would involve work of an applied nature that could provide specific benefits to people…
- p. 11 …on the most effective activity of people working in orbit.
84. Group C consists of operations…
- p. 12 …in circumsolar and near-Earth orbits and working in conjunction with interferometry; studies of the world…
- p. 13 …begin to interfere with each other's work. That is why, in the future, we will…
- p. 14 …Orbital astrophysical observatories working in various spectral ranges.
115. 8. If theoretical research confirms the wisdom…
- p. 15 …a space suit and the dangers of working in open space will compel us to develop…
- p. 16 …In spite of the marvelous work that was done, that experience can hardly be called successful…
- p. 17 …Judging from the articles in the press, the work on the project has been halted-there…
- p. 20 …They could work in orbit for, say, no more than a year per ''tour,'' which would…
- p. 24 …For that reason, we will need to provide rather comfortable living and working conditions for the…
- p. 25 …Thus, powerful software must be created to replace the hundreds of specialists who work in flight…
- p. 26 …To be able to use as storage devices water-electrolyzer systems that work during the day…
- p. 29 …The Mars mission could be a continuation of the work done with unmanned vehicles. Possible tasks…
- p. 31 …How many individuals will land on the surface of Mars? It would be expected that work…
- p. 32 …the crew to two people, who both work at the landing site and then both make…
- p. 35 …departure for Mars (with undocking of the booster rocket after its work is finished) at the…
- p. 40 …the crew transfers to the orbital unit of the base and begins its work.
278. When…
- p. 45 …and working in space, were absolutely efficient (and always had a strong desire to work), could…
- p. 47 …That means that if the mass for the living quarters and the working areas and equipment…
- p. 49 …At the same time, in a healthy body, the 'computer'' works with fewer breakdowns and with…
- p. 51 …Reflecting on stellar flights enables us to single out several promising areas of work that we…
- p. 52 …Robots would be more effective in working in open space than is men in space suits…
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1. What's been done so far and what may lie ahead- something of a summary of the development of the space program, and an attempt at predicting how it will develop-are what is contained in this brochure, written by one of the planet's first cosmonauts.
2. The brochure is intended for a broad circle of readers.
3. Thirty years have gone by since the first man flew into space, and 33 years since the launch of the first artificial Earth satellite. One naturally wants to ask oneself, Just what have we succeeded in doing? What new things have we learned? What have we gained that is of practical value?
4. What's Been Done So Far?
5. In terms of manned flight, we can list the following achievements:
6. We have found out that man can live and work in orbit for a year (and probably longer).
7. We have performed six lunar missions.
8. Man can work in open space (in a space suit), but his mobility and his capabilities there are extremely limited.
9. Man can do research in space, altering its programs and aims in the course of a mission. His capabilities, however, are largely determined by the equipment on board, and he cannot compete with automatic devices in terms of accuracy of execution of precision operations.
10. Manned spaceflight has not given us any fundamentally new information (other than data on man himself in weightlessness and data on the operation of the flight systems themselves in space), and we are powered by the hope for now that we will be able to do something of substance in the future.
11. We still haven't found an ''ecological niche'' in science,
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 53 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.