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Rounding out the crew will be Owen Garriott, 53, a specialist in ionospheric physics who spent 59½ days aboard Skylab, and Astronomer Robert Parker, 46, who was a member of the support crews for Apollo 15 and 17. Both are so-called mission specialists: These are career astronauts who concentrate on science rather than flying. By contrast, payload specialists are hired only for a particular mission. In either case, all the crew members will earn their salary (astronaut pay starts at $24,500 a year and goes to more than $50,000) since this is the first flight...
Pieces range from the goat's wool tapestry of Apollo originally belonging to Kathy Galanopoulos' dowry to the fanciful quilts sewn by Italian-raised Mary Andella for her grandchildren...
DIED. Kurt Debus, 74, German scientist who was director from 1952 to 1974 of NASA'S Cape Canaveral facility (now the Kennedy Space Center), overseeing such landmark projects as the launches of the first U.S. manned spaceflight and Apollo 11 's moon mission; of a heart attack; in Cocoa, Fla. Debus worked closely with Wernher von Braun, the father of modern rocketry, to design the Nazis' V-2 rocket booster, then became a passionately loyal American cit izen after the German surrender. In the 1950s he worked on the Army's first missile capable of carrying and delivering a nuclear...
...Continental Air Lines. In Houston, passengers had to pass through picket lines on their way to flights. All across the U.S. last week, the normally routine business of air travel was suddenly overtaken by confusion and uncertainty. "People are scared," said Kathy Prezas, manager of Chicago's Apollo Travel. "They used to choose an airline for its food, or fares, or times. Now they are deciding which carrier to take by guessing which ones will be flying...
...Apollo program featured similar safety measures, but not all disasters can be handled so smoothly. In 1967 Virgil ("Gus") Grissom, one of the original seven Mercury astronauts, and his two crew members were asphyxiated in a launching-pad fire at Cape Canaveral...