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	Soyuz 40 -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Last Soyuz Ferry flight; ended the first phase of the Intercosmos program, which concentrated on placing citizens of Soviet bloc states into space.
		Soyuz 40 was the last Soyuz Ferry and the last Soyuz spacecraft to dock with Salyut 6.
		It also ended the first phase of the Intercosmos program by carrying Romanian cosmonaut Dumitriu Prunariu and Soviet cosmonaut Leonid Popov to the station.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/S/So/Soyuz_40.htm (215 words)

	Soyuz program
		The Soyuz human spaceflight program was initiated in the early 1960s as part of the Luna program that was intended to put a Soviet cosmonaut on the Moon.
		The Soyuz spacecraft and the Soyuz launch vehicle are both part of this program.
		As of 2003, Soyuz derivatives provide Russia's human spaceflight capability and are used to ferry personnel and supplies to and from the International Space Station.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/s/so/soyuz_program.html (138 words)

	Soyuz 7K-T
		Soyuz finally was separated from by ground control command at 192 km, and following a 20.6+ G reentry, the capsule landed in the Altai mountains, tumbled down a mountainside, and snagged in some bushes just short of a precipice.
		A Soyuz 25 mission to the Salyut 5 space station with the crew of Berzovoi and Lisun was to have followed Soyuz 24.
		The flight was cancelled and the spacecraft allocated for Soyuz 25 flew as Soyuz 30 to Glushko's civilian Salyut station.
	www.astronautix.com /craft/soyuz7kt.htm (2586 words)

	David Denney's World of Trivia
		There are more nuns over the age of 90 than there are under the age of 40.
		40% of infertility problems among couples are the man's fault.
		Glass is an amorphous substance made by heating a mixture of such materials as sand, soda (sodium carbonate), and limestone to a temperature of about 1,300 deg C (2,400 deg F).
	www.angelfire.com /mo/dotila/trivia.html (9807 words)

	Astronaut [encyclopedia] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It is located in orbit around the Earth at an altitude of approximately 386 km, a type of orbit usually termed 'low Earth orbit'.
		Over 40% of astronauts suffer from 'space sickness' for the first few days because their sense of balance depends on gravity.
		Lack of gravity also reduces their number of red blood cells carrying oxygen, causing tiredness.
	kosmoi.com /Space/Astronaut (1143 words)

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