The Nation - News from July 17, 1985
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American and Soviet spacemen who joined hands in orbit 10 years ago marked the anniversary by urging new international cooperation leading to a manned space mission to Mars as early as 1995. The biggest obstacle, all agreed, was politics, not technology. And even as signs of cooperation surfaced at a joint news conference in Washington, the threat of Soviet refusal to participate was raised by a Soviet cosmonaut if President Reagan’s “Star Wars” missile defense research does not stop.
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