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 ====1981====
+**March 1981:** Andrei Kirilenko steps down from both his role as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet and First secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.  He is replaced in both these roles by former Premier Maxim Teplov, who is in turn replaced as Chairman of the Council of Ministers by Boris Gostev.
 **12th December 1981:** Launch of //Thebe// on DS-34.  Two days later the glider docks with Chasovoy-3 for the first Soviet-American joint mission.
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+**1981:** An attempted coup in Saudi Arabia is foiled, but oil prices briefly spike in response.
+====1982====
+**1982:** Oil prices begin to fall from their peak, the start of a sustained drop.
+**1982:** Ford's Liberty rocket debuts.  The US and Japan reach an agreement for Liberty to be built under license by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.
+**August 1982:** Chasovoy-3 is decommissioned.
+**September 1982:** The Dynasoar spaceplanes are retired following the conclusion of mission DS-36.
+====1985====
+**1985:** Richard Branson investigates the possibility of developing an ultra-cheap rocket based on Lutz Kayser's designs.  The first proposed use is a suborbital publicity mission, carrying Branson himself.
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