今年7月初,苏联领导人戈尔巴乔夫访问巴黎时,同法国总统密特朗签署了一项新的空间合作协议,同意法国在1992年选派另一名宇航员到苏联和平号空间站工作12天,加上往返2天,共14天。法国一方面积极地同苏联进行空间合作,另一方面也在逐步地扩大与美国的合作,以便在双边空间研究工作中谋求东西方平衡。 In early July this year, when Soviet leaders Gorbachev visited Paris, he signed a new space cooperation agreement with French President Mitterrand and agreed that France would send another astronaut to work on the USSR’s Mir space station in 1992. Days, plus 2 days back and forth, a total of 14 days. On the one hand France actively engages in space cooperation with the Soviet Union and on the other it gradually expands its cooperation with the United States so as to seek the balance of East and West in its bilateral space research work.