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Although it rose no higher than 266 miles above the earth during its eleven-day mission in space, Apollo 7 and its three-man crew last week lifted U.S. space officials to new heights of optimism. "Apollo 7 goes down in my book as the perfect mission," said Lieut...
General Samuel Phillips, Apollo program director. "We achieved 101% of our objectives in this flight. This is a very major step toward the manned lunar landing, and I have every confidence that it will be accomplished by the end of next year...
Before they splashed down in the Atlantic 230 miles south of Bermuda, Apollo 7 Astronauts Wally Schirra, Walter Cunningham and Donn Eisele had completed 163 revolutions of the earth, com piled more man-hours in space than all of the manned Russian flights combined...
They conducted scores of experiments, produced the first U.S. live TV shows from space and rendezvoused with their discarded Saturn 4B booster (see color pictures). More important, by checking out Apollo's control, navigation, communications and life-support systems, they confirmed that the craft was completely spaceworthy. If no unexpected difficulties are uncovered as technicians decipher the mountain of data that ac cumulated during the flight, an Apollo 8 crew composed of Frank Borman, James Lovell and William Anders may be sent into orbit around the moon with in as little as six weeks...
...true visual flair, nothing beats rhythm-and-blues. Snazzy-stepping, soul-singing performers like James Brown and Wilson Pickett sock it to the faithful with a furious abandon that shakes the halls on college campuses and urban temples like Harlem's Apollo Theater or Chicago's Regal. Of all the R-and-B cats, nobody steams up the place like Sam & Dave...