MIR STATION NEWS CONFERENCE REPORTED

• Document Type: FOIA
• Keywords: UFO SPECIAL COLLECTION
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005517685
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: June 24, 2015
• Document Release Date: January 31, 2011
• Case Number: F-2010-00651
• Publication Date: December 12, 1990

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SUBJ: MIR STATION NEWS CONFERENCE REPORTED
SOURCE: MOSCOW TELEVISION SERVICE IN RUSSIAN 1800 GMT 6 DEC 90
TEXT:
//((FROM THE "VREMYA" NEWSCAST: REPORT BY P. ORLOV, IDENTIFIED
BY CAPTION))
((TEXT)) ((ANNOUNCER)) A NEWS CONFERENCE INVOLVING THE
PARTICIPANTS IN THE SOVIET-JAPANESE SPACEFLIGHT WAS HELD TODAY
DURING A SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS SESSION.
((ORLOV)) RATHER THAN WITH QUESTIONS TO THE SOVIET-JAPANESE
CREW, THE NEWS CONFERENCE OPENED IN RATHER UNORTHODOX FASHION, WITH
AN ACCOUNT OF RYOKO KIKUCHI, THE BACKUP CREW, ON HOW SHE IS
FEELING. YOU WILL REMEMBER THAT RYOKO HAD TO UNDERGO AN OPERATION
AT BAYKONUR. HER ANSWER PLEASED EVERYONE. SHE IS FEELING FINE.
THEN IT WAS TOYOHIRO AKIYAMA'S TURN TO REPLY. ABOUT THE FIRST
DAYS OF WEIGHTLESSNESS. HE WAS FRANK. IT WAS VERY DIFFICULT. IT
WAS MUCH EASIER FOR MUSA MANAROV, WHO IS IN SPACE FOR THE SECOND
TIME, AND AFTER A YEAR-LONG.FLIGH.T._.THEADAPTATION--PROCEEDS 10 TIMES-
MORE QUICKLY, HE SAID.
GENNADIY MIKHAYLOVICH STREKALOV DESCRIBED WHAT CRYSTALS HAD BEEN
PRODUCED IN SPACE AND WHAT HAD BEEN DISPATCHED TO EARTH. HE THEN
ADDED THAT HE HAD OBSERVED AN OBJECT WHICH HE AT FIRST TOOK TO BE
AN UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT, UNTIL HE WORKED OUT THAT IT MUST BE
SOMETHING LIKE A CASING FROM AN AEROSTAT. THESE ARE SOME OF THE
DETAILS FROM TODAY'S NEWS CONFERENCE.
THE WORK IN ORBIT IS SETTLING DOWN INTO A NORMAL ROUTINE. THE
OLD CREW IS HANDING OVER TO THE NEW ONE, AND, MOST IMPORTANT, THE
JOINT WORK OF THE SOVIET COSMONAUTS AND THE JAPANESE TELEVISION
JOURNALIST HAS GOTTEN OFF TO A GOOD START. AND NOT JUST IN SPACE.
((UNIDENTIFIED VOICE IN RUSSIAN, VIDEO SHOWS JAPANESE JOURNALIST
EXTENDING MICROPHONE)) A "JOINT FLIGHT" HAS ALSO TAKEN OFF ON
EARTH. SOVIET JOURNALISTS ARE QUESTIONING OUR JAPANESE COSMONAUT,
WHILE JAPANESE JOURNALISTS WANT TO TALK TO THE SOVIET CREW.
((UNIDENTIFIED RUSSIAN JOURNALIST)) I WOULD LIKE TO ASK YOU,
YOU HAVE FINALLY SEEN YOUR COUNTRY -- JAPAN -- FROM ORBIT, COULD
YOU SHARE YOUR NEW IMPRESSIONS WITH US?
((TOYOHIRO AKIYAMA, SEEN SPEAKING INTO A MICROPHONE, VOICE IN
RUSSIAN)) WHILE YURIY GAGARIN FIRST DESCRIBED THE EARTH AS A
"BEAUTIFUL PALE BLUE GLOBE," IT APPEARED TO ME TO BE AFFLICTED WITH
SCME KIND OF ILLNESS AT THE MOMENT. THIS IS MY IMPRESSION FROM
OBSERVING OUR EARTH.
((ORLOV)) THE JAPANESE TELEVISION JOURNALIST HAS SEEN THE FACE
OF THE EARTH DISFIGURED BY HUMAN ACTIVITY. BUT THE NEWS CONFERENCE
ALSO PRODUCED OTHER INFORMATION. FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MANY YEARS
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U.S. ASTRONAUTS WERE ABLE TO WATCH OUR SPACECRAFT APPROACHING THE
MIR STATION. IT WAS THE SPACECRAFT CARRYING THE SOVIET-JAPANESE
CREW.
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