Word: apollo
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...Astronaut Tom Stafford greeted the Soviet visitors to the Johnson Space Center in his newly acquired (albeit broken) Russian. Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov-who in 1965 became the first man to walk in space-promptly returned the linguistic compliment. Asked whether he anticipated any language difficulties when Stafford's Apollo spacecraft and his Soyuz rendezvous and dock in earth orbit in 1975, Leonov broke into a broad grin and said: "No problem English...
...jazz filled New York last week as George Wein's twentieth Newport Jazz Festival finished its second year in its transplanted home. The festival, running from June 29 to July 8, brought together over 500 jazz musicians in a variety of settings and formats. From concerts in Harlem's Apollo Theater to Carnegie and Philharmonic Halls to the Hudson River boat rides on the Staten Island Ferry, the festival covered the city. Because of its magnitude and dimension, the phenomenon can not be wholly comprehended or fully interpreted. Despite the fact that jazz reached its apex in the forties...
Americans will soon participate in those activities. Rising along the banks of a pretty artificial lake are quarters that will be occupied by U.S. astronauts when they come to Star City to train with their Soviet counterparts for the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz linkup. Shatalov thinks that the Americans will like their surroundings. "This is a healthful, quiet and serious place for training," he said. Then, he added, amiably, "just like Houston...
...pictures ranged from those of the astronauts engaged in everyday activities inside their cavernous spacecraft -showering, eating and undergoing medical tests in zero-G -to dramatic exterior views of Skylab itself. One particularly stunning photograph, taken from the Apollo command ship after the astronauts left Skylab, shows the 80-ton space station circling the cloud-covered earth. The makeshift sunshade, erected by the astronauts after the loss of the original shielding during launch, and the single surviving solar wing on the orbital workshop section are clearly visible. The photographs also offer a close-up view of the damaged equipment, including...
Like their predecessors in space, the Skylab astronauts did experience some weakening of their heart and other muscles, caused by 28 days of weightlessness. While most of the Apollo astronauts recovered their strength about 48 hours after their trips to the moon (which averaged about eleven days), the Skylab crew-notably Physician-Astronaut Kerwin -took a few days longer. But doctors said that the delay was expectable. "They are in better condition than we had hoped for," reported Cardiologist Robert L. Johnson...