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