Jun 4 1982
From The Space Library
The Soviet Union launched Cosmos 1374 from Kapustin Yar into a "round orbit" at 225-kilogram altitude and 50.7° inclination. Press reports said that Australian aircraft watched a seven-ship Soviet task force retrieve from the Indian Ocean an object that might be either a nuclear test craft or a "fairly small" shuttle. United Press International (UPI) said an Australian spokesman claimed to know what kind of craft was recovered but gave no details because the information was "classified"; also, U.S. scientists said that the spacecraft had "an unusually low trajectory." Associated Press (AP) quoted U.S. government sources "who asked to re-main anonymous" that the Soviet Union had launched and recovered, after 1 1/4 orbits, its first space-shuttle type of vehicle; they did not know whether the craft was manned. A Reuters report said that Maj. Gen. Alexei Leonov, who had been one of the cosmonauts on the Apollo-Soyuz mission, hinted that the shuttle guess was right but would give no details. (FBIS, Tass Intl Svc in Russian, June 4/82; W Post, June 9/82, A-7; June 10/82, A-26; June 11/82, A-35; W Times, June 11/82, 6; Av Wk, June 14/82, 18-19)
Esther C. Kisk Goddard, 81, widow of U.S. rocketry pioneer Dr. Robert H. Goddard, whom she married in 1924, died in Worcester, Mass. She had been secretary and photographer for his research; since his death in 1945 she had worked to make his discoveries known. (NY Times, June 7/82, D-11; Goddard News, June 15/82, 3; Ntl Sp Clb bllton, June 82, 3; Worc Sndy TZg, June 6/82, 19B)
The Soviet Union said that Soyuz T5 cosmonauts Anatoliy Berezovoy and Valentin Lebedev, in their fourth week aboard Salyut 7 had finished unloading Progress 13, launched May 23 to refuel and replenish the orbiting station, and undocked it to make room for a spacecraft carrying a French-Soviet crew later in June. Progress 13's propulsion unit had served twice to adjust the orbit of the Soyuz-Salyut complex. Tass reported that ground control had reoriented the Progress June 6 to reenter and burn up over the Pacific Ocean. (FBIS, Msc Wld Svc in English, Tass in English, June 4/82; Tass Intl Svc in Russian, June 6/82)
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