French, Soviets planning an East-West spaceflight

By With Analysis From Monitor Correspondents Around The World; Edited By Susan Garland

April 14, 1982

Paris

A French official said France and the Soviet Union will launch a space capsule containing one French and two Soviet cosmonauts in the first East-West flight in the same space vehicle. Some French scientists have demanded the long-planned flight scheduled for the end of June be postponed to protest the Dec. 13 imposition of martial law in Poland.