Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!sri-unix!glenn@ll-vlsi From: glenn%ll-vlsi@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.space Subject: none Message-ID: <12403@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Wed, 26-Sep-84 21:14:55 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.12403 Posted: Wed Sep 26 21:14:55 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 30-Sep-84 04:14:57 EDT Lines: 17 Subject: Soviet Salyut Mission to End The Russians have announced that the crew of the current Salyut mission is preparing to depart the space station. Such messages are usually given these days one or two weeks before they land. That should give them a total of about 240 days in orbit. This is in agreement with the Soviet's previous missions for record space durations. Each one of those tends to be 30 to 40 days longer than the previous record. There was no suggestion in the Soviet press reports that a replacement mission was being sent up. Indeed as there has been no mention of the removal of the last Progress supply vessel it is probably still attached to the station preventing such a link up. O.K. I goofed it in my previous comments. It really did appear that they were going to try for a quantum leap in mission duration this time. Instead they played it safe and stuck to their older mission style of incremental increases. Glenn Chapman