Word: apollo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...These will be missions flown in three-man Apollo spacecraft. Meanwhile, crews for the remaining two-man Gemini nights will be drawn from the 28 pilots still active. Scheduled for the next three shots: Major Gordon Cooper and Lieut. Commander Charles Conrad in Gemini 5 next month, Commander Walter Schirra and Major Thomas Stafford in Gemini 6 next December or January; Major Frank Borman and Lieut. Commander James Lovell in Gemini 7 early next year...
Their optimism washed over into the Apollo moonshot program. Where officials were recently talking about 1970 as the likely year for the first U.S. lunar landing attempt, last week they were talking about 1969, and Apollo Manager Joseph Shea said the first at tempt might even come in mid-1968. "That's the true implication of Gemini 4 for Apollo," said Shea. Original plans called for a landing on the 15th Apollo shot, he explained, but "now we may be able to make an attempt on the fourth, fifth or sixth launch...
After the Project Gemini series will come Project Apollo, aimed at landing an American man on the moon in its first shot some time in 1970. But the man on the moon is only the beginning of the Apollo program. After that, it will send the spaceship many millions of miles on the way to the planets...
Skip Ascheim directed Giraudoux's "The Apollo of Bellac" in quite a different style, but with almost equal success. The only serious problem was that the play depends entirely on one idea, and consequently sags...
Miss Hawkins was a charming ingenue, though, strangely enough, at her best with the fly and the chandelier--which she caused to light up with pride. Her long, eyes-closed speech to Apollo dragged, but not fatally...