Word: apollo
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...FLIGHT OF APOLLO 9. Starting at 10 a.m.*, the Big Three networks will cover the launching of Apollo 9 as its three astronauts begin a ten-day mission that will include the rendezvous and docking of the command service module and lunar module, a crew transfer and the first U.S. space walk since Gemini 12 in 1966. Reports will be broadcast throughout the flight...
...While Apollo 9 astronauts were preparing for outer space, two crews of U.S. aquanauts began new missions to determine how well man can exist in inner space-the underwater depths...
...After the capture, he speculates, an atmosphere and oceans may have formed on the moon and lasted long enough to support the evolution of complex molecules that were forerunners of life. Singer is attempting to complete the theory while keeping one eye on the fast-moving Apollo moon program. "The idea is to try to work all this out before the moon samples are brought back and examined for evidence of such events. That's the real fun of it all-to be able to say 'I told you so.' In science, that's the name...
That monumental spin through space will be hard to match, but even so, Apollo 8 Command Pilot Frank Borman has had some rarefied moments on earth since reentry. Last week, for instance, a European tour took him from Buckingham Palace to the Elysée Palace to a dinner with Belgium's King Baudouin and Queen Fabiola. Borman proved himself a deft diplomat. In England he pointed out that Apollo's fuel cell was based on an invention by a Cambridge scientist. In Paris he praised French Science Fiction Author Jules Verne in a personal letter...
...NASA's name ban is apparently being subverted. Without the knowledge of NASA headquarters in Washington, astronauts and technicians training for the forthcoming Apollo 9 mission (Feb. 28) began substituting descriptive nicknames for the unwieldy jargon prescribed for their spacecraft. The command and service modules-the joined conical and cylindrical-shaped units that constitute the Apollo spacecraft-were collectively dubbed Gumdrop. The ungainly, four-legged lunar module was appropriately renamed Spider. The nicknames have been used so consistently during more than a month of simulator practice that NASA may well be forced to avoid the confusion and inconvenience...