Ustinov called the DOS 'conspirators' to Kuibyshev Street.
Kamanin is having trouble with the leadership in allowing Volynov to be assigned to another crew. SPACE.com.
Kamanin confronted him, but of course he is sober now. On early Salyuts this was an unpressurized service module 2.2 m diameter x 2.17 m long.
The first crew to the station will be launched aboard a Soyuz on 18-20 April. He would prefer to develop a single reliable Soyuz spacecraft model by building and flying ten more (there are only four left of the original production lot in assembly). The spaceships and crews are declared ready for both missions.When DOS#1 was cleared for flight, it still had 182 discrepancies, of which only 10 were duplicates and 20 were purely cosmetic. Mishin wants the crew of Soyuz s/n 32 to be working aboard the 'live' spacecraft on 3-4 February, but they need to be at the cosmodrome on those dates for training on the Svinets ICBM detector experiment. Chelomei has only one design bureau and 8,000 workers. It is the scientific institutes who say they cannot finish development of their experiments - even to meet the May schedule. However it is decided to shut down all scientific equipment. At 17:00 the State Commission meets publicly (radio and television coverage) to approve the launch of Soyuz 10. Chelomei easily agrees with the VVS to a mutual schedule for Almaz crew training, crew composition, etc. It is to be delivered to the cosmonaut training centre on 20 October. They then back away to 30-40 m, and Patsayev takes another set of photographs documenting the condition of the station.Salyut 1 was kept aloft to study how the systems behaved over an extended period, in order to identify fixes to improve their reliability on later flights. Instead the space leadership keep dreaming up new projects. Only small defects have been noted. It had no priority with the leadership.
Kamanin doesn't trust this change of heart - he asks the VVS ballistics section to confirm Mishin's calculations. This will mean that many experiments cannot be accomplished.
After a three-hour debate the majority of those present are still worried about the reliability of the docking system. Mishin also rejected DOS, but deputies at both design bureaux supported the concept and were eager to proceed. A communications session begins on the 15th orbit of the day at 19:45. Salyut 4 represented the second phase of DOS civilian space station. Every day over 20-22 days is a risk to the life of the crew, in Kamanin's view. He is to be sent to a sanatorium for rehabilitation.The space plan for 1971 has finally been approved.
Now three years later Mishin's Soyuz VI is put on the back burner. Leonov is asking to go to East Germany for two to three days in the first week of July. Description.
It was shocking that this was made available for Almaz, while the military told Mishin that he would have to prepare the immense MKBS station in the uncontrolled environment, subject to frequent power blackouts, of the N1 facility.
Two to three months would be required to fabricate the suits and equipment and to train for the EVA. The tracking station reports good orbital insertion, separation from the third stage, and antennae and solar panel deployment.