Aug 17 1976
From The Space Library
A large scientific balloon released 13 Aug. in Sicily by German and Italian scientists discharged a package of equipment for gamma-and cosmic-ray experiments and dropped it to earth near Rutland, Mass., said a meteorologist of the Natl. Weather Service at Worcester Airport. The radio-controlled balloon came down in Gardner, Mass., after a separation explosion at 40.2-km altitude. A spokesman at Hanscom AFB in Bedford said the balloon was owned by the Natl. Center for Atmospheric Research in Palestine, Tex. (NYT, 18 Aug 76, 13)
The 2 Soyuz 21 cosmonauts aboard space station Salyut 5, first manned space mission since last July's Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, were experiencing "a state of sensory deprivation, a sort of sensory hunger," according to the government newspaper Izvestia. Although Col. Boris Volynov and Lt. Col. Vitaly Zholobov continued to carry out their scientific and medico-biological experiments as they entered the 7th wk of their stay on Salyut 5-the halfway mark toward breaking the U.S. endurance record of 84 days in space set by 3 Skylab 4 astronauts in 1973-and despite their years of training to combat the problem, Izvestia said "the organism still reacts in a peculiar way to space conditions." One symptom of "the increase in their need for communication" was that the cosmonauts were asking ground control more and more often for news from earth. On the advice of psychologists, ground control had begun playing music to the cosmonauts, Izvestia said. (UPI, in W Star, 17 Aug 76, A-4)
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