RUSSIA WANTS TO COOPERATE WITH NASA

                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: SATURDAY, February 22, 1992                   TAG: 9202220204
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: B7   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short
RUSSIA WANTS TO COOPERATE WITH NASA
Russian space officials, envisioning a cosmonaut and astronaut one day setting foot on Mars together, on Friday offered the United States use of their Mir space station.
Calling for far broader and deeper cooperation in space, the Russian officials also offered their Soyuz spacecraft as an emergency crew rescue vehicle for the proposed U.S. space station Freedom.
Yuri Semenov, general director and chief designer of the Energia (energy) scientific and industrial complex that produces Soviet spacecraft, told a Senate subcommittee that his country's and America's officials have been talking about more joint space ventures "far too long."
"It is time to move from words to deeds," he said. "We could present a number of interesting projects for international cooperation; we could carry out a whole series of proposals."
Among them, he listed joint satellite efforts to monitor the weapons and missile technologies of other countries and using Soviet RD-170 rocket engines, which far outstrip the carrying capacity of any launch vehicle in the U.S. inventory, to launch a joint space platform.

by Bhavesh Jinadra by CNB