Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!Howard.Gayle@CMU-CS-G From: Howard.Gayle%CMU-CS-G@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.space Subject: Soviet space station Message-ID: <15773@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Fri, 20-Jan-84 15:00:16 EST Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.15773 Posted: Fri Jan 20 15:00:16 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 21-Jan-84 23:05:26 EST Lines: 5 According to Arthur Smith of the London Daily Mirror, the Soviet Union is likely to attempt this year to launch a large (~100 Mg) space station into LEO using their Saturn 5 class (G) booster, which has not yet been fired successfully. The station would be about the size of Skylab, and much larger than Salyut.