美国总统里根和苏联总书记戈尔巴乔夫在冰岛首脑会晤时,同意两国就开始民用空间项目全面合作进行协商,尽管双方原来在有关战略国防的军事空间试验问题上存在尖锐分歧。即将举行的民用空间项目会谈的目的在于,商讨一个美苏空间合作的新条约,以在下次首脑会晤时达成协议。一个5～10名苏联外交官和空间小组,于10月底或11月初赴 When President Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev met at the Icelandic summit, they agreed that the two countries should start negotiations on all-round cooperation in civil space projects, even though the two sides had sharp differences on the issue of military space experiments on strategic national defense. The purpose of the upcoming civil space project talks is to discuss a new treaty for space cooperation between the United States and the Soviet Union so as to reach an agreement at the next summit meeting. A 5 to 10 Soviet diplomats and space team went to the end of October or early November