Soviets Said to Offer Space Trip to Briton

LONDON —  The Soviet Union has offered Britain the chance to send an astronaut into space on board one of its missions, according to a member of a parliamentary delegation that recently visited Moscow.

Conservative Party lawmaker Ken Warren said the offer came when the delegation, headed by Lord Whitelaw, deputy prime minister, visited the Soviet space center at Star City.

Gen. Georgy Beregonov, head of the Soviet space program, pointed to a wall display of non-Soviet cosmonauts who have been sent into orbit on Soviet missions and told the delegation he was saving a place for a British astronaut.

“They are quite serious about it. There is no doubt there is a place for us on a space mission if we should want it,” Warren said Saturday.