CIA STARGATE release
CIA-RDP96-00789R003900850002-5
Opens with: TASKING SHEET
Warning: text for all documents has not been verified. Errors are possible. Check the original by document ID on CREST.
3 pages, machine transcribed from the CIA’s released scan.
. . Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789R003900850002-5 TASKING SHEET SOURCE NO: 079 DATE: 14 APR 93 SUSPENSE: 15 APR 93 1200 hrs 1. PROJECT NUMBER: 93-194-P 2. METHOD / TECHNIQUE: Method of choice. 3. BACKGROUND: None 4. ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF INFORMATION: ---- Describe the target. -- -Provide sketches in support of your findings. 5. COMMENTS : - -Optional Coordinates: 846127/477491. Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789R003900850002-5
CPYRGHT App elease 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789R003900850002-5 MIR CORE OF A SPACE COLONY Mankind's permanence in space may begin with the Soviet station Mir, Russian for "peace." Launched February 1986, Salyut-size Mir boasts improved control and operations systems, expanded crew space and- most significantly- a forward docking adapter equipped with five ports. Here, four craft-all already in use-deploy at the station. A Soyuz TM space taxi has docked vertically. A second TM departs the forward port as a crew member inspects the docking seals. Flying in formation, lower, is a large module, nearly the size of Mir itself. Equipped for manned and unmanned operation, it could house experiments for astronomy, materials processing, or horticulture; periodically it will dock with Mir. At the station's stern rides a Progress freighter. Inside Mir a cosmonaut monitors the control station while another floats toward his compartment with sleeping cocoon and porthole-gracious living by space standards. A treadmill for jogging stands at the cosmonaut's left. First to occupy the station (left), Vladimir Solovyev and Leonid Kizim, at right, return last July after a 125-day mission to Mir and Salyut 7. PAINTING BY PIFARE MION Approved 2001/03/071: CIA-RDP96 0078-8003900860002
Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789R003900850002-5 TASKING SHEET SOURCE NO: DATE: 14 APR 93 SUSPENSE: 15 APR 93 1200 hrs 1. PROJECT NUMBER: 93-194-P 2. METHOD/TECHNIQUE: Method of choice. 3. BACKGROUND : None 4. ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF INFORMATION: -- Describe the target. -Provide sketches in support of your findings. 5. COMMENTS : -- -Optional Coordinates: 846127/477491. Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789R003900850002-5