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This CIA-held JPRS report (JPRS-USP-89-007) is an English translation of an interview with academician Roald Sagdeyev. The interview ran in the Soviet magazine PRIRODA in January 1989. Sagdeyev talks about space research achievements, the Interbol project, and the Phobos mission to Mars, including the loss of contact with Phobos 1 in September 1988. He also covers competing designs for Mars 94, manned flight to Mars and democratizing Soviet science. He mentions UFOs only once, recalling a Gosplan lecture where every audience question was about flying saucers.
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## Concatenated JPRS Reports, 1989 Document 1 of 3 Page 1 Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Status: [STAT] Document Date: 01 Jan 89 Category: [CAT] Report Type: JPRS Report Report Number: JPRS-USP-89-007 Report Date: UDC Number: Author(s): PRIRODA correspondent with Roald Zinnurovich Sagdeyev, academician, specialist in the field of plasma physics and space research, chairman of the Soviet Scientists' Peace Committee, Hero of Socialist Labor, recipient of the Lenin and State prizes, member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the Swedish Royal Academy, the Max Planck Society and a number of other academies, under the rubric ''The Organization of Science. Space Research'': ''Let Us Not Put Ourselves in the Headline: Sagdeyev Discusses Space Missions, Policy, Mars Plans Source Line: 18660073a Moscow PRIRODA in Russian No 1, Jan 89 pp 33-46 Subslug: [Interview by PRIRODA correspondent with Roald Zinnurovich Sagdeyev, academician, specialist in the field of plasma physics and space research, chairman of the Soviet Scientists' Peace Committee, Hero of Socialist Labor, recipient of the Lenin and State prizes, member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the Swedish Royal Academy, the Max Planck Society and a number of other academies, under the rubric "'The Organization of Science. Space Research'': "'Let Us Not Put Ourselves in the Position of the Junior Partner!''; first paragraph, given in boldface as printed, is PRIRODA introduction] ## FULL TEXT OF ARTICLE: 1. [Text] Space research, despite its relative youth (the 30th anniversary of the beginning of the Space Age was observed not that long ago), has become a well-established part of our lives. We have become accustomed to regular launches of manned craft and unmanned cargo craft into near-earth orbits and no longer remember very well how many people make up the cosmonaut contingent in our country, not to mention those in the USA. It is true that we continue to be enraptured as we view the magnificent photographs on which have been imprinted the Earth or, for example, the giant planets Uranus, Jupiter or Saturn. But this is a glance from the side. But what is actually going on in this field of science and technology whose actual state of affairs we have long known less than we would have liked to have known? What problems are troubling the specialists who have devoted themselves to cosmonautics? Academician R. Z. Sagdeyev, who headed up the USSR Academy of Sciences's Space Research Institute
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 21 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.