The World : Cosmonauts to Join Salyut
A Soviet spaceship bearing two veteran cosmonauts and fitted with new flight controls was launched into orbit, bound for a rendezvous with the Salyut 7 space station in the first Soviet manned launch in nearly a year. The official news agency Tass said that Col. Vladimir Dzhanibekov, 43, the mission commander, and flight engineer Viktor Savinykh, 45, soared into space aboard the Soyuz T-13 capsule. Tass did not elaborate on what kinds of controls were installed nor did it mention when docking is to take place.
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