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          DATE:-14 APR 93
          SUSPENSE:-15 APR 93
          -1200 hrs-
          1. PROJECT NUMBER: 93-194-P
          2. METHOD/TECHNIQUE: Method of choice.
          3. BACKGROUND:
          None
          4. ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF INFORMATION:
          ---- Describe the target.
          ---- Provide sketches in support of your findings.
          5. COMMENTS:
          ---- Optional Coordinates: 846127/477491.
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MIR
CORE OF A
SPACE COLONY
Maiikiiid's permanence in space may
begin with the Soviet station Mir,
Rus,siari for "peace." Launched February
198(i, Sulyut-sizc Mir boasts improved
-orilrof and operations systems,
c
expanded crew space and-
most sign ificantly-a forward AMI
docking adapter equipped
with Jive ports.
I Icre, four craft-all
already in use-deploy at the station.
A SoyuzTM space taxi has docked
vert ica I ly. A second TM departs the
l6n,vard port as a crew member inspects
the docking seals. Flying information,
lower, is a large module, nearly the size
ofMir itself. Equipped for manned and
unininnied operation, it could house
experi in ents for astronomy, materials
processuig, or horticulture; periodically
it will dock with Mir. At the station's
sterri rides a Progressfreighter.
hiside Mir a cosmonaut monitors the
cotitrol station while anotherfloats
loward his compart7nent with sleeping
COC0011 011d porthole-gracious living by
spuce standards. A treadmill for jogging
stunds (it the cosmonaut's left.
b'irst I o occupy the station (left),
Vladifinr Solovyev and Leonid Kizim,
(it right, return lustjuly after a
12!) day in ission to Mir
and Salyut 7.
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          Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3900850002-5
          TASKING SHEET
          SOURCE NO:
          DATE:-14 APR 93
          SUSPENSE: 15 APR 93
          -1200 hrs-
          1. PROJECT NUMBER: 93-194-P
          2. METHOD/TECHNIQUE: Method of choice.
          3. BACKGROUND:
          None
          4. ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF INFORMATION:
          ---- Describe the target.
          ---- Provide sketches in support of your findings.
          5. COMMENTS:
          ---- Optional Coordinates: 846127/477491.
          Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789ROO3900850002-5