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...E.D.T. on July 24 after nine days aloft, Apollo is scheduled to come down in the Pacific some 345 miles west of Honolulu, where choppers from the helicopter carrier New Orleans will be ready to pluck the men and capsule out of the sea. Almost certainly, it will be the last such splashdown. In the future U.S. astronauts will touch down on jjmways, using the space shuttle-a cross between plane and rocket-scheduled for its first test flight...
...Union, where Moscow, in a sharp reversal of past practices, gave the mission prolonged press buildup and provided extensive live coverage in an apparent effort to dramatize detente to the Soviet man in the street (see box next page). Outside the U.S. and the Soviet Union, admiration of the Apollo-Soyuz flight was sometimes mixed with doubts about its diplomatic implications. Echoing a concern often heard in France, as well as in some Third World countries, that détente means that Washington and Moscow are building a condominium of world power, the Paris daily Le Figaro posed a question...
...noon, when the ships came within range of a tracking station in Santiago, Chile, one of Apollo's four television cameras began sending pictures of the history-making rendezvous. Plainly visible outside Apollo's left window were the curved earth, one of the large finger-like petals of the docking module and, off in the distance, the winged Soyuz. After a few moments of maneuvering, Stafford nudged Apollo up against Soyuz so gently that there was barely a jolt as the three interlacing fingers on each ship locked together. Later at a briefing in Moscow...
...says NASA Deputy Administrator George Low. He insists that it was the U.S. that learned a technological lesson from the Russians, rather than vice versa. How? Low says the joint mission exposed designers of the sophisticated Apollo system to the functional simplicity of less costly Soviet space hardware. On his visit to the Baikonur cosmodrome, Low was astonished to find out that the pad used to send off Soyuz had launched some 300 rockets, including the first Sputnik and the spacecraft that carried Yuri Gagarin on the first manned voyage into space. Said Low: "We have to learn...
...Yuri Fokin, 50, Moscow's properly graying, avuncular counterpart of U.S. television's Walter Cronkite, began his commentary on the first live broadcast from the orbiting Soyuz. Fokin's enthusiasm was typical: no event in recent years had been so ballyhooed by the Kremlin as the Apollo-Soyuz linkup...