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Soviets in space (3)
"Our country has an extensive space program, drawn up for many years. We are going our own way: we are moving consistently and purposedly.
Soviet cosmonautics is solving problems of increasing complexity... Our way to the conquest of space is the way of solving vital, fundamental tasks, basic problems of science and technology ....
Our science has approached the creation of long-term orbital stations and laboratories as the decisive means to an extensive conquest of space. Soviet science regards the creation of orbital stations with changeable crews as the main road for man into space. They can become cosmodromes in space, launching platforms for flights to other planets. Major scientific laboratories can be created for the study of space technology, biology, medicine, geophysics, astronomy, and astrophysics?"
(Excerpt from a speech by Leonid Brezhnev, Moscow, October 22 1969)