Platform erected in space by Soviet pair

From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: May 29, 1986 | Copyright information

MOSCOW Two Soviet cosmonauts yesterday erected a large platform and frame over the Salyut 7 space station during a 3-hour, 50-minute space walk, the news agency Tass said.

Tass called the space walk a unique experiment that "ushers in a new stage in the work in orbit and opens the possibility of large-scale assembly work in outer space."

The agency said the two cosmonauts, Leonid Kizim and Vladimir Solovev, first erected a platform on a transfer compartment of the Salyut 7 ...

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