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This Central Intelligence Agency file is a 1991 JPRS translation, report JPRS-USP-91-005. It carries the annotation and text of a Soviet brochure on the space program, written by one of the first cosmonauts. The brochure reviews what manned and unmanned spaceflight have achieved and calls the American lunar program a costly dead end pursued for prestige. It then proposes future tasks, including environmental monitoring satellites, orbiting factories, an international monitoring system, Mars sample return, radio telescopes and space robots.
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# Concatenated JPRS Reports, 1991 Document 5 of 10 352. 9. Cheap, reusable transport spacecraft for transport operations between low orbit and geostationary orbit. 353. 10. Space robots for operations in open space in Earth satellite orbits. 354. Table of Contents 355. What's Been Done So Far?..3 356. The Experience We've Garnered..6 357. Forthcoming Tasks in Space..12 358. The Space Hardware of the Near Future..16 359. Orbital Injection Systems..19 360. Orbiting Solar Electric Power Plants..22 361. Orbiting Factories..26 362. Radio telescopes..27 363. The Cloud-Station..27 364. The Lunar Base..29 365. The Mars Mission..34 366. A Base in Geostationary Orbit..44 367. Space Settlements..51 368. Flight to the Stars..55 369. What Needs to Be Done?..62
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 53 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.