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| | Nat' Academies Press, Leaving Earth: Space Stations, Rival Superpowers, and the Quest for Interplanetary Travel (2003) |
 | | Because their Soyuz orbital module was discarded as planned, burning up during re-entry, there was no way of knowing if the problem was in its docking port or worse, in the bow port of Salynt 6. |
 | | Though the docking failure of Soyuz 25 had had nothing to do with its rookie crew, Brezhnev stepped in person- ally to forbid any future all-rookie crews.) To accommodate this command, and to bring someone to Salynt 6 who had the specific abilities to fix the problem, required the immediate shuffling of all crew assignments. |
 | | Instead, controllers planned to use Soyuz 27 to get the aft port clear, albeit in a roundabout fashion: After docking Soyuz 27 to the bow port, Dzhanibekov and Makarov were to return home in Soyuz 26, thereby clearing the aft port. |
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