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[Chris Jones]

Correcting garbled wording:

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Chris Jones<clj at panix.com> wrote:

> Soyuz 34 was launched without a crew after Soyuz 33 suffered an engine
> failure in its docking attempt with the Salyut 6 station.  Soyuz 33 (an
> Interkosmos mission carrying a Bulgarian cosmonaut) returned to earth using
> its backup engine, but concern that Soyuz 32, docked at Salyut 6, might
> have a similar engine problem led to the unmanned launch.  After docking
> at Salyut 6, Soyuz 32 returned without a crew and Soyuz 32 was used to
> return the crew which had been launched on it.

That last sentence should read: "After Soyuz 34 docked at Salyut 6, Soyuz 32
returned without a crew and Soyuz 34 was used to return the crew which
had launched on Soyuz 32."