Things were going so well aboard the Soviet Union's Salyut space laboratory last week that there were hints in Moscow that the manned flight might last a month or more. Inside Salyut's large cabin, the three cosmonauts were running tests to determine the physical effects of weightlessness on man, tending a small on-board vegetable patch in which cabbages and onions were growing, and comparing their observations of earth with those being made from two planes flying at much lower altitudes directly below them. Not forgetting their other obligations, the cosmonauts also took time...
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