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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 for more than 15 years, shares his own thoughts in this connection in an interview with our magazine's correspondent, N. D. Morozovaya. 2. [Correspondent] For the two great space powers--the USSR and the USA--the year 1992 will be rich in major historic events: it represents the 500th Anniversary of the discovery of America, the 75th Anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution and the 35th Anniversary of the beginning of the Space Age. Is it true that, at the suggestion of these two countries, it has been proposed that the year 1992 be declared World Space Year? 3. [Sagdeyev] In fact, such an idea is being discussed now in the various international unions and, evidently, the ICSU--the International Council of Scientific Unions-- is supporting it. (I would remind you that all scientific unions belong to the ICSU, including our COSPAR--the Committee on Space Research). Everyone recalls what a colossal success the International Geophysical Year was (1957-1958), during which the earth's very first artificial satellite was launched. This year brought together, in an unusual manner, scientists from many countries, and the international scientific community welcomed the news about the launching of the Soviet satellite with enormous enthusiasm. And now, 30 years after that event, the very same ideas are guiding the scientists who are proposing this time that an International Space Year now be declared. If such a resolution is adopted, I am certain that UNESCO will also support it. 4. It is difficult to overestimate the significance of so important a measure; it will produce an occasion for exchanging views about what has been done in space in the past and what needs to be done in the future. Above all, this should strengthen international cooperation. Additionally, it is now very important that an active promotional campaign be conducted among the broad masses regarding the achievements of cosmonautics and space science, because, on the one hand, space science and technology can play an enormous role in solving many contemporary global problems, and I have in mind, first and foremost, ecological and economic problems, not to mention space science itself, which is experiencing a period of turbulent growth. And, on the other hand, the expenditures for space research are extraordinarily great. At one time, Academician L. A. Artsimovich defined science as a means for satisfying the curiosity of scientists at the expense of the state. But space research is not at all an inexpensive means for satisfying this curiosity. Therefore, the adoption of decisions regarding the main directions to be taken in the development of space research has always been coupled with a heavy burden of responsibility. 5. During the development of the Soviet space program, we had an
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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.