Word: apollos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...should go this week, shortly after the sun rises over Cape Canaveral on Friday. If there are no new hitches Astronauts John Young, 50, and Robert Crippen, 43, will board their 75-ton orbiter Columbia, lift off from the same launch pad that sent Young and other Apollo astronauts to the moon, and spend 54½ hours racing around the earth before bringing down their magnificent flying machine-the most advanced spacecraft ever built-to a daredevil "dead-stick" landing in California's Mojave Desert. That is how a new era in space travel is scheduled to begin...
Slayton, selected as one of the original seven astronauts for the Mercury program in 1959 but forced by a heart murmur to wait until he commanded the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz mission, was asked if he still hoped of returning. "Hell, yes, I wouldn't be here if I didn't," he replied...
...been plagued by technical troubles during its development over the past decade and is two years behind schedule. Last week's tragedy was the first loss of life at the launch site of a manned space flight since three astronauts died in a capsule fire in the Apollo I spacecraft...
...fighters landing on a Navy aircraft carrier. But then comes the soft sell: those are Grumman planes. Other World on Parade segments have included a mini-tour of a Chrysler factory where robots help assemble K-cars and a message for Krugerrands showing how gold was used in the Apollo spacecraft that flew astronauts to the moon. Also featured are nature sequences starring chimpanzees, reindeer, geese and kangaroos...
...world's most famous reporter--whose most memorable stint came in 1969, when he spent more than 100 hours before the camera describing the flight of Apollo 11--read his last story, appropriately enough an update on America's space shuttle project, and then turned to an estimated 29 million viewers for a moment of reflection...