Feb 18 1968
From The Space Library
U.S.S.R. would increase pace of its space program in preparation for manned circumlunar flight, John N. Wilford reported in New York Times. Although no official Soviet flight schedules had been announced, informed sources speculated that U.S.S.R. would conduct manned earth-orbital flight, possibly within three months, during which cosmonauts in redesigned Soyuz spacecraft would practice rendezvous with another vehicle; unmanned circumlunar flight during summer 1968; and manned flight in fall 1968, in which cosmonauts or animals would circle moon in Soyuz spacecraft and return to earth. (Wilford, NYT, 2/18/68, 18)
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