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<text id=92TT0712>
<title>
Apr. 06, 1992: World Notes:Space
</title>
<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
Apr. 06, 1992 The Real Power of Vitamins
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
WORLD, Page 38
World Notes
SPACE
Discovering a New World
</hdr><body>
<p> The plot of the story was familiar to any science-fiction
fan. The crew of a rocket ship returns to earth after a long
space voyage only to find everything changed. It was exactly that
way for Sergei Krikalev. When he blasted off in May 1991, he was
one of the proudest of elites, a Soviet cosmonaut. Last week,
when he came back after 313 days in orbit, he found a different
world.
</p>
<p> Krikalev landed on the snowy plains of Kazakhstan, an
independent country. He was wearing the emblems of the U.S.S.R.,
but it no longer exists. His hometown is called St. Petersburg
again, not Leningrad. Understandably, Krikalev's knees were a
bit rubbery. He was given a whiff of smelling salts and a cup
of soup.
</p>
<p> He had followed events on the ground with interest, for
politics kept him aloft. After the aborted coup in August, newly
emergent Kazakhstan, where the launch facilities are located,
demanded that a Kazakh cosmonaut be put into space. The mission
directors complied last October but had to talk a less than
thrilled Krikalev into staying in orbit an extra five months to
help train the new crew.
</p>
</body></article>
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