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Article: Space: glasmarstroika. (Soviet Union and United States joint venture in space)

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May 28, 1988
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BRIEFLY during 1975, the heyday of detente, Russian cosmonauts and American astronauts orbited the world in celestial harmony, their Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft docked snugly together. Mr Gorbachev, it seems, is feeling nostalgic. At this week's superpower summit in Moscow, he would like to talk to President Reagan about Mars.

The Russians have made no secret of their ambition to send a man to Mars, an undertaking that would dwarf all previous human exploits in space and might cost $100 billion or more. The Americans are unlikely to hop aboard. They have found it hard enough to implement their own plan to co-operate with Japan, Canada and Western Europe on a far ...

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