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NASA answered : "So far we have agreed that each country would 

 have control of its own spacecraft and crew." 

 Teague asked 



What about communications? Do you envision having to use a lot of interpreters? 

 Or arc you going to have all the astronauts studying Russian? 



OPPOSITION TO APOLLO-SOYUZ 



There were many unanswered questions. Yet publicly at least, 

 the criticism seemed somewhat muted. Not so a month later when 

 Symington's International Subcommittee received a briefing on 

 Apollo-Soyuz. Price cut loose at Dr. Low: 



It is my conclusion that they have not ever lived up to any agreement they have 

 ever made in history. And I think as long as they can they will use us to develop their 

 equipment in every way they can, and then they will abandon us when the time 

 comes. This idea of compatibility is a wonderful thing, and peace, all this sort of 

 thing. Hut I don't think we want to rush headlong into this thing blindly, not know- 

 ing that they technically will bleed us of everything they can bleed us of. 



A different point of view was expressed by Hechler: 



As a student of history, I can't help but be gripped by the historic significance 

 of what is being described. It is a few months less than 15 years ago when the Russians 

 launched Sputnik, and that sent shock waves not only throughout the American 

 scientific community, but it shook Congress and the Nation to its foundations.* * * 

 It is significant that we are not arguing emotionally over "whether," but we are 

 talking about "how." That to me is a great breakthrough for the world. 



THE TEAGUE-W1NN TRIP TO RUSSIA — 1972 



In August 1972, Teague and Winn took a trip to the Soviet Union. 

 They asked to see Star Citv, the cosmonaut training center, and some 

 of the tracking stations in the Soviet Union and were told "Nyet." 

 Teague acknowledges: 



It wasn't quite fair how we did it. We went over without telling a soul. 1 am 

 sure if we had gone through the right channels, we would have been shown every- 

 thing. They didn't show us a damned thing. * * * I got more than a cool reception. 



Space Subcommittee staff director, Jim Wilson, who accompanied 

 Teague and Winn to Moscow and made the advance arrangements, 

 indicates that if Ambassador Dobrynin had been in Washington at the 

 time, he is sure that the Soviets would have arranged to show the 

 committee members almost everything they wanted to see. As it turned 

 out, the Russians, who require an incredible amount of time to get their 

 slow-moving bureaucratic machinery geared up, simply remained 

 clammed up. They did make a few more personal concessions, however. 

 Teague was greeted by one of the chief scientists of the Soviet Union, 

 a robust character who looked like the type who had worked in a 

 potato held or a coal mine, and who spoke perfect English in ad- 

 dressing Teague: 



We have something in common. We are both from the South. I'm from Georgia. 



