PROJECT 93-194-P

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: STARGATE
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP96-00789R003900850002-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: November 4, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 5, 2000
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: April 14, 1993
• Content Type: REQ

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TASKING SHEET
SOURCE NO:~
DATE? 14 APR 93
SUSPENSE: 15 APR 93
_1200 hrs_
1. PROJECT NUMBER: 93-194-P
2. METHOD/TECHNIQUE: Method of choice.
3. BACKGROUND:
None
4. ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF INFORMATION:
----Describe the target.
----Provide sketches in support of your findings.
----Optional Coordinates: 846127/477491.
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CORE OF A
SPACE COLONY
Mankind's permanence in space may
hegia with the Soviet station Mir,
Russian for- "peace." Launched February
I9t36, Salyut-size Mir boasts improved
control and operations systems,
expanded crew space and-
rnost significantly-a forward '}?"`'
docfzing adapter eyuipped
with five ports.
I Ierc, four craft all
already in use-deploy at the station.
A ,Soyuz "TM space taxi has docked
vert icaliy. A second TM departs the
Jonvnrd port as a crew member inspects
the docking seals. Flying in formation,
lower-, is a Iarge module, nearly the size
of Mir itself. Equipped for manned and
umnanned operation, it could house
experiments for astronomy, materials
processing, or horticulture; periodically
it will loch with Mir. At the station's
stern rides a Pr-ogress freighter.
Inside Mir- a cosmonaut monitors the
control station while another floats
toward his compartment with sleeping
cocoon cold porthole-gracious living by
space standards. A treadmill for jogging
stands at the cosmonaut's left.
first to occupy the station (left),
Vladimir Soiovycv and Leonid Kizim,
at night, return iastJuiyaftera
125-day mission to Mir
and Salyut 7.
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TASKING SHEET
SOURCE NO?
DATE? 14 APR 93
SUSPENSE: 15 APR 93
_1200 hrs_
2. METHOD/TECHNIQUE: Method of choice.
3. BACKGROUND:
None
4. ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF INFORMATION:
----Describe the target.
----Provide sketches in support of your findings.
----Optional Coordinates: 846127/477491.
Approved For Release 2001/03/07 :CIA-RDP96-007898003900850002-5