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| | TIME.com: Success for Soyuz -- Jun. 29, 1970 -- Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) |
 | | Last week, as Soyuz 9 completed its 220th swing around the earth, Cosmo nauts Andrian Nikolayev and Vitaly Sevastyanov broke the endurance mark for space travel set in 1965 by As tronauts James Lovell and Frank Borman aboard Gemini 7 (13 days, 18 hr. |
 | | Using new radio navigational gear, they were able to track Soyuz to within about a yard of its actual path. |
 | | Indeed, the flight went so well that the cosmonauts took time out from their 16-hour work daysexercises, photographic experiments, spacecraft check-outs to battle ground crews in a longdistance chess match (which ended in a draw on the 36th move). |
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