I seem to recall an article in Time Magazine or Newsweek that had a fantasy space war in it with killer satellites and culminating in a shuttle capturing a Salyut. Typical paranoid fantasy of the era.
Don't know if it's the same book but there was "The Hunting of Salyut 7", a SF book about a beam weapon on a module attached to (the fictional) Salyut 7 during a visit by a crew that involved a Palestinian cosmonaut, and a shuttle was flown to try and disable the weapon - all from 30+ years memory!
I seem to recall an article in Time Magazine or Newsweek that had a fantasy space war in it with killer satellites and culminating in a shuttle capturing a Salyut. Typical paranoid fantasy of the era.
Don't know if it's the same book but there was "The Hunting of Salyut 7", a SF book about a beam weapon on a module attached to (the fictional) Salyut 7 during a visit by a crew that involved a Palestinian cosmonaut, and a shuttle was flown to try and disable the weapon - all from 30+ years memory!
That came after that article by a year or too, I think. I tried reading it, very bad even to me as a teenager (as I was when it came out). Usual paranoid cold war thriller with lots of inaccuracies (the first one that got to me me was the green thermal blankets being described as camouflage !)
On the other hand, there was the fictional "Kettering Group" in the book!
http://ria.ru/culture/20151221/1346258514.htmlRIA Novosti reports that a movie is being made about the Soyuz T-13 rescue mission to Salyut-7 in 1985. The working title is "Salyut-7 : History of an Historic Feat". The film is directed by Klim Shipenko and is expected to hit the movie theaters in the spring of 2017. Soyuz T-13 cosmonauts Vladimir Dzhanibekov and Viktor Savinykh are acting as advisors. Most of the scenes are being shot in Saint Petersburg, but some of the shooting will also take place in Moscow and the US.
Incidentally, I recently stumbled on a Soviet-era documentary on Soyuz T-13 produced by the Tsentrnauchfilm film studio in 1985. It's called "A victory is needed" (Nuzhna Pobeda). It's available via the Russian social network site "Vkontakte". For some reason the URL doesn't work when I copy it, but if you google Нужна победа Салют-7, it's the first thing you should get.
Among the most interesting clips are some shots of Salyut-7 taken from the approaching Soyuz T-13 (between 8m04s and 9m30s).
Some great footage there. Here are some screen captures. I was surprised to see that they had video from the Soyuz cabin during launch!